Elisabeth Paul Edouard Rossel letter to Louis Marie Bajot concerning the lunar method for calculatin...
Elisabeth Paul Edouard Rossel letter to Louis Marie Bajot concerning the lunar method for calculating longitude, 15 June 1819
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1819
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In this letter, written in French, Rossel writes to Louis Marie Bajot, inspector-general of the library of the Ministry of the Marine and editor of the Annales Maritimes et Coloniales. In response to the articles Bajot has asked him to review, Rossel recommends that the lunar method be abandoned since the difficulty of accurately measuring the heig...
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Elisabeth Paul Edouard Rossel letter to Louis Marie Bajot concerning the lunar method for calculating longitude, 15 June 1819
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Purchased from Hordern House, October 2015
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