Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730–1850

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
A Southern Meridian: Astronomical Undertakings in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire....Pages 13-31
The Longitude Committee and the Practice of Navigation in the Netherlands, c. 1750–1850....Pages 32-46
From Lacaille to Lalande: French Work on Lunar Distances, Nautical Ephemerides and Lunar Tables, 1742–85....Pages 47-64
The Bureau des Longitudes: An Institutional Study....Pages 65-85
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
Patriotic and Cosmopolitan Patchworks: Following a Swedish Astronomer into London’s Communities of Maritime Longitude, 1759–60....Pages 89-110
‘Perfectly Correct’: Russian Navigators and the Royal Navy....Pages 111-133
A Different Kind of Longitude: The Metrology of Location by Geodesy....Pages 134-156
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Testing Longitude Methods in Mid-Eighteenth Century France....Pages 159-179
Navigating the Pacific from Bougainville to Dumont d’Urville: French Approaches to Determining Longitude, 1766–1840....Pages 180-197
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Navigation and Mathematics: A Match Made in the Heavens?....Pages 201-222
Longitude Networks on Land and Sea: The East India Company and Longitude Measurement ‘in the Wild’, 1770–1840....Pages 223-247
Back Matter....Pages 249-259