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Lunar & time tables, : adapted to new, short, and accurate methods for finding the longitude by chronometers and lunar distances: including methods of applying corrections to a lunar distance for the spheroidal figure of the Earth, the apparent elliptical forms of the sun and moon, and for the temperature and density of the atmosphere. With an appendix, containing four additional new lunar methods, demonstrations of the rules, and mathematical formulae for constructing the tables, approved of by the Astronomer Royal, and others. And under the patronage of the Admiralty, the Board of Trade, the East India Company, the Trinity House, and Lloyd's