Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 1886
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1886natur..35..172y&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 35, Issue 895, pp. 172 (1886).
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
MAY I ask for a few lines in which to correct an erroneous impression naturally made by a sentence in my recent paper on ``Ten Years' Progress in Astronomy,'' which you have honoured me by reprinting in NATURE. The sentence relates to the longitude of Rio; and although it does not really assert that the error in this longitude was first detected and corrected by our American naval officers, yet I must frankly admit that the connection and form of expression are such that this would be the natural, though incorrect, inference. The fact is that Admiral Mouchez and his coadjutors in the French Navy had already, by their chronometric and other work, brought the uncertainty to very narrow limits (say +/- 2s.) before the telegraphic campaign of the Americans. The history of the case is peculiar, but too long to be given here: it affords an excellent example of the uncertainty of longitudes based on lunar observations.
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