Monteiro da Rocha and the international debate in the 1760s on astronomical methods to find the longitude at sea: his proposals and criticisms to Lacaille's lunar-distance method.

In the 1760s, the international debate on the solution to determining longitude at sea is at its acme. Two solutions emerge, the mechanical and the astronomical ones. The Portuguese mathematician and astronomer José Monteiro da Rocha (1734–1819) is well aware of that debate. For him, Harrison's No....

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Published in:	Annals of Science Vol. 79; no. 2; pp. 215 - 259
Main Authors:	Figueiredo, Fernando B., Boistel, Guy
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Apr2022
Subjects:	Astronomical research La Caille, Nicolas Louis de, 1713-1762 Astronomers Mathematicians Classical historiography Mythology
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