Navigators are given the means to find…

January 1767 CE

Navigators are given the means to find longitude at sea using tables of lunar distance in the first annual volume of The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, published on January 1, 1767, and produced by British Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.

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