The tabulated logarithmic aid for correcting the apparent distance, and facilitating the reduction of the observations.
(Mark 7:4) means banqueting-couches or benches, on which the Jews reclined when at meals. This custo...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
See astronomical tables, and nautical tables. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A lunar distance. II. Lunar ·adj Resembling the moon; orbed. III. Lunar ·adj Of or pertainin...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The brief epithet for the method of finding the longitude by the moon and sun or moon and stars. (Se...
·pl of Table d'hote. ...
Tables for facilitating the calculation of the apparent places of the sun, moon, and planets. ...
Tables for facilitating the determination of horary angles. ...
Those especially computed for resolution of matters dependent on nautical astronomy, and navigation ...
The interval between a departure and return of the moon to the meridian. ...
An important element in finding the longitude at sea, by what is termed nautical astronomy. It is ef...
See variation of the moon. ...
The method of observing the apparent distances between given celestial objects, and then clearing th...
Reducing the observations of the sun and moon, or moon and stars, in order to find the longitude. Al...
The longitude calculated by observing the moon's angular distance from the sun or a fixed star. It i...