BIB_ID
105950
Accession number
MA 38.32
Creator
Burney, James, 1750-1821.
Display Date
1817 Nov. 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (2 p.), bound ; 31.8 cm.
Notes
Endorsed on the verso of the second folio "On taking lunar observations without an Affidavit."
John Pond was an English astronomer and as the sixth Astronomer Royal (1811-1835) Pond oversaw a considerable modernization of the Observatory at Greenwich.
Part of a collection of correspondence and papers of Rear Admiral James Burney. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
John Pond was an English astronomer and as the sixth Astronomer Royal (1811-1835) Pond oversaw a considerable modernization of the Observatory at Greenwich.
Part of a collection of correspondence and papers of Rear Admiral James Burney. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in July 1905.
Summary
Discussing the observation "of longitude at sea independent of any Affidavit;" describing, in detail, his methods of calculation; sending him part of a journal he kept from an observation in 1776 which shows his methods; adding that during that time he had "invented a Table intended to simplify the correction of lunar distances on account of variations in the barometer and thermometer; doubting that this table will be of value to him, but asking that he look at it.
Catalog link
Department