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The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris for the year 1822, published by order of the Commissioners of Longitude (Printed by T. Bensley, Sold by John Murray (London, 1820) © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
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Francis Beaufort to—Stratford, 27 June 1848, Hydrographic Office, UKHO LB15:242.
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John Herschel writing to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Henry Goulburn, 16 September 1842, Royal Society Archive, RH:HS B27.51.
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Waring, S. (2016). The Nautical Almanac: Instrument of Controversy. In: Craciun, A., Schaffer, S. (eds) The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences. Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-44379-3_11
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