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Astronomy: a diagram showing how to determine longitude. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1851, after himself.

Johann Caspar Eisenschmidt. Line engraving.

On the new method of determining the longitude by the culmination of the moon and stars being a paper read before the Astronomical society of London. To which are now added an appendix, and a list of stars, applicable to the purpose, for the year 1825 / By Francis Baily.

A proposal to determine our longitude / By Jane Squire.

Pétition au Parlement britannique, sur la spoliation d'un savant étranger par le Bureau des Longitudes de Londres / soumise par Höeneé Wronski.

Appellation au Parlement de la Grande-Bretagne.

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On the new method of determining the longitude by the culmination of the moon and stars being a paper read before the Astronomical society of London. To which are now added an appendix, and a list of stars, applicable to the purpose, for the year 1825 / By Francis Baily.

A proposal to determine our longitude / By Jane Squire.

Pétition au Parlement britannique, sur la spoliation d'un savant étranger par le Bureau des Longitudes de Londres / soumise par Höeneé Wronski.

Johann Caspar Eisenschmidt. Line engraving.

Appellation au Parlement de la Grande-Bretagne.