The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery, Volum 3Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Greene, 1838 |
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Side v
... Distance and Separation of Asia and America . - Galileo . - Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites employed to find the Longitude . - Observations of Picard . - The Map of France reformed . - Labours of Cassini . - Chazelles rectifies the Map ...
... Distance and Separation of Asia and America . - Galileo . - Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites employed to find the Longitude . - Observations of Picard . - The Map of France reformed . - Labours of Cassini . - Chazelles rectifies the Map ...
Side vi
... Distance between Asia and America determined . - The Ships stopped by Ice in the Polar Sea . - The Russian Fur Traders . - Enterprise of Ledyard . -Return to the Sandwich Islands . - Owhyhee surveyed . - Friendliness of the Natives ...
... Distance between Asia and America determined . - The Ships stopped by Ice in the Polar Sea . - The Russian Fur Traders . - Enterprise of Ledyard . -Return to the Sandwich Islands . - Owhyhee surveyed . - Friendliness of the Natives ...
Side 13
... Distance and Separation of Asia and America . - Galileo . - Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites employed to find the Longitude .--- Observations of Picard . - The Map of France reformed .--- Labours of Cassini . - Chazelles rectifies the ...
... Distance and Separation of Asia and America . - Galileo . - Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites employed to find the Longitude .--- Observations of Picard . - The Map of France reformed .--- Labours of Cassini . - Chazelles rectifies the ...
Side 14
... were best acquaint- ed . The length of the Mediterranean from Calpe or Gibraltar to the bottom of the bay of Issus , where Scanderoon stands at present , which is really a distance of 41 ° 14 BOOK V. PROGRESS OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCE .
... were best acquaint- ed . The length of the Mediterranean from Calpe or Gibraltar to the bottom of the bay of Issus , where Scanderoon stands at present , which is really a distance of 41 ° 14 BOOK V. PROGRESS OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCE .
Side 15
William Desborough Cooley. present , which is really a distance of 41 ° 28 ' , is increased in the map of Ptolemy to 62 degrees . Thus the error in the length of the Mediterranean alone amounts to 20 ° 32 ' , or nearly 1400 English miles ...
William Desborough Cooley. present , which is really a distance of 41 ° 28 ' , is increased in the map of Ptolemy to 62 degrees . Thus the error in the length of the Mediterranean alone amounts to 20 ° 32 ' , or nearly 1400 English miles ...
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The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery, Volum 3 William Desborough Cooley Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1831 |
The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery, Volum 3 William Desborough Cooley Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1831 |
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