 | Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach - 1996 - 463 pages
...great trigonometrical operation of the 17H()s. They are shown in the plates at the end of William Roy, "An Account of the Trigonometrical Operation. Whereby...Observatories of Greenwich and Paris Has Been Determined," /''/'80(1790): 111-270. 5For instance, Aubert planned a dinner at Loam Pit for Cavendish, Herschel,... | |
 | Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach - 1996 - 463 pages
...1990), 179-206, on 199. '"Roy, "An Account of the Mode Proposed," 222. "Ibid., 226. '-'William Roy, "An Account of the Trigonometrical Operation, whereby the Distance between the Meridians of the Roval Observatories of Greenwich and Paris Has Been Determined," PT (1790): 111-270, on 201. Errata... | |
 | Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach - 1996 - 463 pages
...CtK.endish, 170. '•0'"Transit-room" at Cavendish's Clapham Common house appears on the map in William Roy, "An Account of the Trigonometrical Operation. Whereby the Distance between the Meridians or the Royal Observatories of Greenwich and Paris Has Been Determined." P7' 80 t1790): 111-270. on... | |
 | John Gascoigne - 1998 - 264 pages
...Rossi, P. Francis Bacon: From magic to science, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968. Roy W. 'An account of the trigonometrical operation, whereby...Observatories of Greenwich and Paris has been determined. Read February 25, 1790, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 80 ( 1 790) , 1... | |
 | Daniel R. Headrick - 2000 - 246 pages
...Two years later, while correcting the proofs of An Account of the Trigonometrical Operations by which the Distance between the Meridians of the Royal Observatories of Greenwich and Pans has been Determined Roy died.21 If France of the Old Regime gave the example, it was the French... | |
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An account of the trigonometrical operation, whereby the distance between the meridians of the Royal Observatories of Greenwich and Paris has been determined. 
