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Nevil Maskelyne directed the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, for 46 years (1765-1811) and supervised the production of the first 49 issues of the Nautical Almanac. This biography attempts to present the work and achievements of the fifth Astronomer Royal. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Chapters: Edmond Halley, John Flamsteed, Johann Elert Bode, Nevil Maskelyne, Jean Sylvain Bailly, James Bradley, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Maximilian Hell, Maria Margarethe Kirch, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Louis Feuillée, Jérôme Lalande, Jean-Baptiste Chappe D'auteroche, Antonio de Ulloa, Barnaba Oriani, Nathaniel Pigott, Johann Karl Burckhardt, Anders Johan Lexell, Edward Pigott, Francesco Bianchini, Michel Ferdinand D'albert D'ailly, Nathaniel Bliss, John Goldingham, César-François Cassini de Thury, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, Louis Receveur, Nathanael Matthaeus Von Wolf, Dominique, Comte de Cassini, Jacques Cassini, Louis Godin, Joseph Bernard de Chabert, Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux, John Bird, Anthony Shepherd, Honoré Flaugergues, Henry Andrews, Jagannatha Samrat, Jonathan Ben Joseph, Chester Moore Hall, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, Jacques D'allonville, Edwin Holmes. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 180. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (23 March 1749 5 March 1827) was a French mathematician and astronomer whose work was pivotal to the development of mathematical astronomy and statistics. He summarized and extended the work of his predecessors in his five volume Mécanique Céleste (Celestial Mechanics) (17991825). This work translated the geometric study of classical mechanics to one based on calculus, opening up a broader range of problems. In statistics, the so-called Bayesian interpretation of probability was mainly developed by Laplace. He formulated Laplace's equation, and pioneered the Laplace transform which appears in many branches of mathematical physics, a field that he took a leading role in forming. The Laplacian differential operator, widely used in applied mathematics, is also named after...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=344783 ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1894Original Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co.Subjects: GamblingCardsharpingGamblersGames / Card Games / GeneralGames / Card Games / BridgeGames / Card Games / PokerGames / Gambling / GeneralTrue Crime / GeneralNotes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.Excerpt: CHAPTER IIIMARKED CARDS AND THE MANNER OF THEIR EM PL O YMENTProbably it was at no very recent date in the history of card-playing that some genius first recognised the advantage which would accrue to a player who could devise some means of placing a distinctive mark on the back of each card, imperceptible to all but himself, to indicate its suit and value. Every card-player must at some time or other have exclaimed mentally, ' Oh, if I only knew what cards my opponents hold ! ' There one has, then, the origin of marked cards. The sharp, above all others, desires to know his opponent's cards. It is almost a necessity of his existence ; and in his case it is certainly true that ' necessity is the mother of invention,' and 'knows no law.' Whatever the sharp may find necessary he is sure to acquire, and will not be scrupulous as to the manner of its acquisition.The systems of card marking are as numerous as they are ingenious. They vary from a mark which covers the greater portion of the back of the card to a markwhich is invisible. This latter may not appear to be of much utility, but it must be borne in mind the sharp is not restricted to the use of the sense of sight only. Sometimes, indeed, it is necessary for him to know the cards without looking at them, and then a visible mark would be of no possible use to him.So numerous, indeed, are the systems of marking -- almost ev... ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
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T018812

'Published by order of the Commissioners of Longitude'.

London : printed by W. Richardson and S. Clark; sold by John Nourse, and Mess. Mount and Page, 1767. 28,lvip. ; 4° ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here.
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T122533



London : printed by W. Richardson and S. Clark, 1768. [2],44,[4]p. : tables ; 8° ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here.
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T059673

A lecture read to the Royal Society, Dec. 20, 1764, and Jan. 24, 1765.

London : printed in the year, 1765. [4],42p. ; 4° ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Reverend Dr Nevil Maskelyne FRS (6 October 1732 - 9 February 1811) was the fifth English Astronomer Royal. He held the office from 1765 to 1811. In 1758 Maskelyne was admitted to the Royal Society, which in 1761 despatched him to the island of St. Helena to observe the transit of Venus. This was an important observation since accurate measurements would allow the accurate calculation of Earth's distance from the Sun, which would in turn allow the scale of the solar system to be calculated. Bad weather prevented any useful observations, however Maskelyne used his journey to develop a method of determining longitude using the position of the moon, the lunar distance method. He returned to England, resuming his position as curate at Chipping Barnet in 1761, and began work on a book, publishing the lunar distance method of longitude calculation in 1763 in The British Mariner's Guide, which included the suggestion that to facilitate the finding of longitude at sea, lunar distances should be calculated beforehand for each year and published in a form accessible to navigators. ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here.
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T068329

The 40pp. section is the Appendix.This defence against Thomas Mudge's charge provoked Mudge to write in the same year: 'A reply to the Answer of the Rev. Dr. Maskelyne'.

London : printed for F. Wingrave, successor to Mr. Nourse, 1792. [2],128,40p. ; 8° ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Friedrich Bessel, François Arago, Nevil Maskelyne, George Biddell Airy, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, James Dunlop, Camille Flammarion, James Challis, Christopher Hansteen, Maria Mitchell, Edward Emerson Barnard, Julius Bauschinger, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Charles Todd, Jérôme Lalande, George Forbes, James Edward Keeler, Auguste Charlois, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Willem de Sitter, Barnaba Oriani, John Pond, Henri-Alexandre Deslandres, Johann Gottfried Galle, William Harkness, Johann Karl Burckhardt, Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, John Birmingham, Heinrich Louis D'arrest, Thorvald N. Thiele, Benjamin Baillaud, Lewis A. Swift, James Craig Watson, Norman Robert Pogson, John Russell Hind, Hermann Carl Vogel, Judson B. Coit, Thomas William Webb, Temple Chevallier, Hermann Struve, Charles Dillon Perrine, Solon Irving Bailey, Guillaume Bigourdan, Marie-Charles Damoiseau, Alexis Bouvard, Rudolf Wolf, William Christie, Hervé Faye, Spiridon Gopčević, Giovanni Battista Donati, John Louis Emil Dreyer, Paul Auguste Ernest Laugier, Karl Ludwig Hencke, Stephen Groombridge, Dominique, Comte de Cassini, Wilhelm Julius Foerster, A. Laurent, Ludwig Struve, Karl Theodor Robert Luther, Wilhelm Tempel, Antonio Abetti, Philip Herbert Cowell, Leo Anton Karl de Ball, Annibale de Gasparis, James Ferguson, Walther Augustin Villiger, Alphonse Borrelly, Luigi Carnera, Joseph Bernard de Chabert, Gyula Fényi, Carl Theodor Anger, Andrew Graham, François Gonnessiat, Albert Marth, Nathaniel E. Green, Honoré Flaugergues, Samuel Oppenheim, Vincenzo Cerulli, Jean-Félix Adolphe Gambart, Gustav Spörer, Hugo Gyldén, Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Klinkerfues, Jean Chacornac, Jérôme Eugène Coggia, Walter Frederick Gale, Casimir Marie Gaudibert, John M. Thome, Otto August Rosenberger, Edwin Holmes, Anders Donner, Ed...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=205497 ... Read more