Unpublished paper, 'Copy of proposals for a new method of determining the longitude by an absolute altitude of the moon' by John Christian Bowring
Reference number: AP/21/13
Date: 1838
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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'.
- Reference number
- AP/21/13
- Earliest possible date
- 1838
- Physical description
- Ink and graphite pencil on paper
- Page extent
- 11 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Unpublished paper, 'Copy of proposals for a new method of determining the longitude by an absolute altitude of the moon' by John Christian Bowring, 1838, AP/21/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_21_13/unpublished-paper-copy-of-proposals-for-a-new-method-of-determining-the-longitude-by-an-absolute-altitude-of-the-moon-by-john-christian-bowring, accessed on 12 December 2025
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Proposal for a new method of determining the longitude, by an absolute altitude of the moon External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1843
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1837.0017
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Referee's report by Francis Baily, on a paper 'Proposal for a new method of determining the longitude, by an absolute altitude of the moon' by John Christian Bowring
Creator: Francis Baily Reference number: RR/1/28
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Archived papers: volume 21, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1836-1838
1837-1838 Reference number: AP/21
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