Rasor Bibliography

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Full entry text:

Andrewes, William J.H., ed. The Quest for Longitude. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1996, 437 pp. 22 essays, some cited; from Longitute Symposium, Harvard University, November 1993, the tricentenary of the birth of John Harrison.

Categories:

18th C. (1700-1799); Admiralty; age of sail; association; instrument; navigation; technology;

Keywords:

18th century, eighteenth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, age of sail, association, society, group, organization, organisation, conference, conference paper, symposium, instrument, navigation, compass, clock , technology, advance, modernization, modernisation, navigation, navigate, longitude, latitude