Colonial Astronomers in Search of the Longitude of New England

Authors

  • Richard Rothschild Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/NaN

Keywords:

chronometer, Champlain, pendulum clock, David Rittenhouse, John Winthrop, Rev. Samuel Williams, Penobscot Bay, Henry Mowat, Baily's Beads, Joseph Willard

Abstract

This article deals with aspects of progress made between 1755 and 1785 to identify the longitude of New England and the reasons for the failure of the Harvard-American Academy of Arts and Sciences expedition to Penobscot to see the totality of the solar eclipse of October 27 1780.

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Published

1983-04-01

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 4 (1983): Maine History Journal

Section

Articles