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Solving the Problem of Longitude - Captain Cook Society
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WEB Parliament, in 1704, voted to offer a reward (£10,000 for any method capable of determining a ship's longitude within one degree; £15,000, within 40 minutes, and £20,000 within …
Longitude by the Method of Lunar Distance - Starpath
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WEB Mar 21, 2005 · Captain James Cook had no chronometer aboard the Endeavor in 1768; all Cook's first survey of the South Pacific was implemented by careful lunar observation. …
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The timepiece that helped Captain Cook get a quick fix and put ...
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WEB The 'K1' timepiece used by Captain Cook on his second and third voyages. Credit: Sally Golding The Longitude Act of 1714 offered life changing rewards for anyone who could …
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WEB Jul 12, 2010 · In Cook's time longitude accuracy to 30 arcminutes was regarded as an achievement and errors of one degree were common (60 nautical miles at the …
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Nautical Navigation and Survey at the Time of Cook's ... - The …
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WEB From Captain Cook as a Hydrographer. The method produced results of varying accuracy and errors of half a degree were reasonably common. Although half a degree (30 …
Magnetic Observations on Cook’s First Voyage - Captain Cook …
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WEB Apr 1, 2023 · True north and longitude would have been based on observations of the sun, or stars, and comparison in Cook’s words with the “Assistance of the Nautical Almanac …
Captain Cook’s longitude determinations and the transit of …
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WEB voyage Cook and Green used shore-based observations of Jupiter’s moons to determine longitude while at some of their anchorages, with some impressive results. An example …
Longitude, Harrison Clocks, Lunars and Captain Cook (Part 1)
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WEB Mar 9, 2015 · Longitude was different and far harder to determine. Celestial Navigation. Celestial navigation, the method sailors in Cook’s day used to find their way around the …
James Cook - Wikipedia
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WEB Captain James Cook FRS (7 November [O.S. 27 October] 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between …
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WEB Cook’s First Voyage to the South Seas primarily was undertaken in order to observe the 3 June 1769 transit of Venus from Tahiti. For this purpose, two official astronomers were …
Captain Cook’s 1768 Voyage to the South Pacific Included a Secret ...
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WEB Aug 24, 2018 · Captain Cook’s crew, complete with astronomers, illustrators and botanists, was one of 76 European expeditions sent to different points around the globe to observe …
Captain James Cook - Antique Telescopes
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WEB A fight broke out and James Cook was killed on 14 Feb 1779 by angry natives. The Space Shuttle Endeavor is the newest addition to NASA's shuttle fleet. It is the fifth spacecraft …
1769 transit of Venus observed from Tahiti - Wikipedia
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WEB Fort Venus located on the north coast of Tahiti. On 3 June 1769, navigator Captain James Cook, naturalist Joseph Banks, astronomer Charles Green and naturalist Daniel …
First voyage of James Cook - Wikipedia
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WEB The route of Cook's first voyage Later state of map originally published 1748. Revised to show the discoveries of Cook's first voyage (1768-1771) and discoveries in Bering …
An Analysis of Captain Cook's Longitude Determinations at …
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WEB Context: Captain Cook, longitude, Nautical Almanac errors, 1778 Citation: Doe N.A., An Analysis of Captain Cook’s Longitude Determinations at Nootka,
Captain Cook's longitude determinations and the transit of …
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WEB Article on Captain Cook's longitude determinations and the transit of Mercury — common assumptions questioned, published in Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 40 …
Longitude and Empire: How Captain Cook's Voyages Changed the …
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WEB Richardson, Brian W. Longitude and Empire: How Captain Cook's Voyages Changed the World. UBC Press. 2005. ISBN 0-7748-1189-7. I was defeated by this book. I don't …
Captain Cook's longitude determinations and the transit of …
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WEB DOI: 10.1080/03036758.2010.482971 Corpus ID: 140136131; Captain Cook's longitude determinations and the transit of Mercury — common assumptions questioned …
Longitude and Empire: How Captain Cook’s Voyages Changed the …
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WEB Before Captain Cook’s three voyages, to Europeans the globe was uncertain and dangerous; after, it was comprehensible and ordered. Written as a conceptual field …
James Cook, The British Explorer Who Opened The Pacific To The …
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WEB May 30, 2022 · Captain Cook thus took command of the HMS Endeavour, a 106-foot collier converted for the long voyage. It had a crew of 94 men, including a team of scientists, …
January - March 1773 | Captain Cook Society
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WEB A break in the weather on 7 January gave Cook “an oppertunity to take some altitudes of the Sun to rectify our Longitude by the Watch [chronometer] and also to assertain the …
Captain Cook - Cook's Chronometer - English and Media Literacy ...
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WEB Captain Cook- Cook’s Chronometer is an excerpt from Beyond Speculation, the third episode of the 4 x one-hour series Captain Cook – Obsession and Discovery, produced …
Longitude and Empire: How Captain Cook's Voyages Changed the …
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WEB Oct 1, 2010 · Before Captain Cook’s three voyages, to Europeans the globe was uncertain and dangerous; after, it was comprehensible and ordered. Written as a conceptual field …
