The longitude not found, or, An answer to a treatise written by Henry Bond, Senior, shewing a way to find the longitude by the magnetical inclinatory needle wherein is proved that the longitude is not, nor cannot be found by the magnetical inclinatory needle / by Peter Blackborrow, Gent.

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The longitude not found, or, An answer to a treatise written by Henry Bond, Senior, shewing a way to find the longitude by the magnetical inclinatory needle wherein is proved that the longitude is not, nor cannot be found by the magnetical inclinatory needle / by Peter Blackborrow, Gent.
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Blackborow, Peter.
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London :: Printed for Robert Harford ...,
1678.
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Bond, Henry. -- Longitude found.
Longitude.
Longitude -- Tables.
Navigation -- Early works to 1800.
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"The longitude not found, or, An answer to a treatise written by Henry Bond, Senior, shewing a way to find the longitude by the magnetical inclinatory needle wherein is proved that the longitude is not, nor cannot be found by the magnetical inclinatory needle / by Peter Blackborrow, Gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28285.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 9, 2024.

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The Demonstration of this Sphere upon the Globe, is according to my former.

Here place the seventh Figure.

  d. m.  
N L, 36 54  
S N, the residuum Sine 08 38 083029
L S, the residuum Sine 44 50 015178
The Sum of the Sides 90 14  
The half Sum of the Sides 45 07  
The Sine of the first Difference 36 37 977558
The Sine of the second Difference 00 17 769417
The Sum     1845182
The Sine of the half Sum 09 41 922591
Which 9 d. 41 m. being doubled, you have 19 d. 22 m. for the Angle at the Pole

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[illustration] geometrical diagram
Fig: 7

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of the Earth, then substract 6 d. from it, as in the case of Ballasore, Bourdeaux be∣ing Eastward of the Meridian of London, and you have 13 d. 22 m. for the difference of Longitude, between London and Bourde∣aux, which is 13 d. 00 m. more than the truth by Journal. See in Mr. Bonds Tables of Longitude.

And from hence you may observe, that the Magnetical Needle, or Inclinatory Needle, cannot give the Magnetical La∣titude in proportion to any one Meridian of the Earth.

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