| RefNo | AP/21/13 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'Copy of proposals for a new method of determining the longitude by an absolute altitude of the moon' by John Christian Bowring |
| Date | [1838] |
| Description | Bowring expands upon a method of determining the longitude by the observation of an absolute altitude of the moon first proposed by Alexandre Guy Pingré and Pierre Charles Le Monnier. Annotated in pencil throughout. Marked on back as 'archives'.
Subject: Astronomy
Communicated by John George Children.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 4 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'Proposal for a new method of determining the longitude, by an absolute altitude of the moon'. |
| Extent | 11p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink and graphite pencil on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1837.0017 |
| RelatedRecord | RR/1/28 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA3175 | Children; John George (1777 - 1852); chemist | 1777 - 1852 |