Publication Date
4-1-1983
Document Type
Article
First Page
175
Last Page
204
Abstract
This article deals with aspects of progress made between 1755 and 1785 to identify the longitude of New England and the reasons for the failure of the Harvard-American Academy of Arts and Sciences expedition to Penobscot to see the totality of the solar eclipse of October 27 1780.
Recommended Citation
Rothschild, Richard F.. "Colonial Astronomers in Search of the Longitude of New England." Maine History 22, 4 (1983): 175-204. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainehistoryjournal/vol22/iss4/2