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V. Determination of the Latitude and Longitude of the Observatory at Aberdeen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

Andrew Mackay
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Dear Sir,

Some time ago I promised to send you the result of a series of observations, made to determine the situation of this place. Having, however, been much hurried of late, I am only able at present to transmit you the determination of the latitude, deduced from a series of observations of the sun's meridian zenith distances. With respect to the longitude, as soon as it is in my power, I will reduce some observations of occultations, and of the late solar eclipse, and send you the results.

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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , 1798 , pp. 135 - 161
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1798

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page 140 note * Communicated 7th November 1796.

page 142 note * In making these calculations, I was led to discover an error in the method I had given in my Treatise on the Longitude, for finding the longitude of a place by an occultation. That error, and several others, will be corrected in a new edition of that work.

page 160 note * See Theory and Practice of finding the Longitude, &c. vol. I. p. 208.