Meanings of find longitude in English

In the course of their struggle to find longitude, scientists struck upon other discoveries that changed their view of the universe.

Starting in 1530, Flemish astronomer Gemma Frisius hailed the mechanical clock as a contender in the effort to find longitude at sea.

To prove worthy of the £20,000 prize, a clock had to find longitude within half a degree.

He proposed to find longitude by the position of the moon and some select stars-muchas Johannes Werner had suggested one hundred sixty years previously.

Galileo's method for finding longitude at last became generally accepted after 1650-butonly on land.

It was fudged in later, when Harrison's growing fame as "the man who found Longitude" occasioned the creation of the engraving.

Some of these are real green ink stuff, with perpetual motion and squaring the circle bound into the seemingly intractable problem of finding longitude.

"I believe that the way to find longitude is not to make better clocks, but to make certain astronomical observations-