“
with yours, especially with those who, habituated to the English edition, shrink from every alteration altho’ for the better
. . .
”
Copies of the
Nautical Almanac appear on Jefferson’s binding bills from time to time. John March bound three volumes in a half binding on June 30, 1807, cost $2.00. On April 30, 1809, Joseph
Milligan bound the
Nautical Almanac for 1797, cost 50 cents. On July 5, 1809, Jefferson brought
[
sic
--
Ed.
] two
Nautical Almanacs (dates and editions not specified) for $
2.50.
Nevil Maskelyne, 1732-1811, succeeded Nathaniel Bliss as astronomer royal in 1765, and immediately established the
Nautical Almanac, of which he superintended the publication for forty-five years. For his
Tables Requisite to be used with the Nautical Ephemeris
, see no. 3811.
John Garnett, fl. 1811, published his editions of the
Nautical Almanac and of the
Tables Requisite from New Brunswick, New Jersey. Little seems to be known about him, but from a passage in a letter to Jefferson it is possible that he was born in England.
Edmund March Blunt, 1770-1862, hydrographer, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
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Requisite tables for the Nautical Ephemeris.
8
vo.
2. copies.
1815 Catalogue, page 116, no. 17, as above.
[MASKELYNE,
Nevil.]
Tables Requisite to be used with the Nautical Ephemeris for finding the Latitude and Longitude at Sea. Published by Order
of the Commissioners of Longitude. The
Second Edition, corrected and improved.
London: Printed by
William Richardson in the Strand; and sold by
C. Nourse in the Strand, and Mess.
Mount and Page, on Tower Hill, Booksellers to the said Commissioners.
m dcc lxxxi
. [1781.] [Price
Five Shillings, stitched in blue Paper.
]
VK563 .G75
8vo. 126 leaves in fours, separate signatures and pagination for The Explanation and Use of the Tables, 32 leaves at the end.
List of Errata on the fourth preliminary and on the last leaf. The Preface is signed by Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal, from Greenwich, Feb. 10, 1781; the Explanation at the end by G. Witchell.
Lalande, page 578. Houzeau, page 187, no. 1128.
Jefferson bought a copy from Duane on March 5, 1802, price $3.00.
The
Tables Requisite to be used with the Nautical Ephemeris was first published by Maskelyne in 1766, and reprinted in London in 1781 and 1802. See the
Nautical Almanac, above.
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Tracts in Astronomy viz......................
}
Strong’s Astronomical lectures
}
12
mo.
Clap on Comets & meteors .
}
1815 Catalogue, page 116, no. 22, Tracts in Astronomy, to wit, Strong’s Astronomical Lectures, Clap on Comets and Meteors,
12mo.
Two tracts originally bound together for Jefferson. Entered without price in the undated manuscript catalogue.
i. STRONG,
Nehemiah.
Astronomy Improved: or, A new Theory of the harmonious Regularity observable in the Mechanism or Movements of the Planetary
System. In Three Lectures, read in the Chapel of Yale-College, in New-Haven. Begun February 17, 1781. Exhibiting a New and
Accurate Method, for investigating the Velocities, Distances and Periods of the Planets; founded on the Nature of Gravitation,
and Mathematical Relations and Dependencies between their Distances, Velocities and Periods: As also for finding the Quantities
of Matter in the Primary Planets; and the
