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8 ENGRAVED PLATES1. THE THEORY & PRACTICE OF LONGITUDE AT SEA
2. A New and Easy Method of Finding Latitude on Sea or Land
3. An Introduction to Latitude, without Meridian Altitudes; and Longitude, at Sea,
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SAMUEL DUNN LONDON: Printed for the Author, 1778; 1778; 1782 [published date: 1778-1782]. Three volumes bound in one. All three Rare First editions. 8vo. 9" x 5.5" inches (LxB). Pp. viii, 152; 20; 24 pages + 8 (of 15) engraved plates, the plates present here are no.1-3, 6, 9 and 12-14. Fine original contemporary full calf leather boards, gilt decorated spine sympathetically rebacked in antique style, using matching brown calf leather with 4 raised bands, red & black gilt lettered morocco labels. Text somewhat browned. SAMUEL DUNN was a British mathematician and amateur astrologer. He is best known for his New Atlas of the Mundane System, or of Geography and Cosmography, describing the Heavens and the Earth (1774). His Theory and Practice of Longitude At Sea was self-published subsequent to Harrison's findings (1765), but enjoyed a reprint in 1786.

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The history of longitude is a record of the effort, by navigators and scientists over several centuries, to discover a means of determining longitude. The measurement of longitude is important to both cartography and navigation. Historically, the most important practical application of these was to provide safe ocean navigation. Knowledge of both latitude and longitude was required. Finding a method of determining longitude took centuries and involved some of the worlds greatest scientific minds.

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Samuel Dunn (died 1794) was a British mathematician,[1] and amateur astronomer. ........In 1757, he came before the public as the inventor of the "universal planispheres, or terrestrial and celestial globes in plano", four large stereographical maps, with a transparent index placed over each map, whereby the circles of the sphere are instantaneously projected on the plane of the meridian for any latitude, and the problems of geography, astronomy, and navigation wrought with the same certainty and ease as by the globes themselves, without the help of scale and compasses, pen and ink. He published an account of their Description and Use, 2nd edition, octavo, London, 1759. From the preface, it appears that in 1758 Dunn had become master of an academy "for boarding and qualifying young gentlemen in arts, sciences, and languages, and for business", at Chelsea. It was at Ormond House,[2] where there was a good observatory. On 1 January 1760, he made the observation of a remarkable comet;[3] other discoveries he communicated to the Royal Society. Towards the close of 1763, he gave up the school at Chelsea, and fixing himself at Brompton Park, near Kensington, resumed once more his private teaching. In 1764 he made a short tour through France.[4] In 1774, when residing at 6 Clement's Inn, near Temple Bar, he published his excellent New Atlas of the Mundane System, or of Geography and Cosmography, describing the Heavens and the Earth. … The whole elegantly engraved on sixty-two copper plates. With a general introduction, folio, London. About this time his reputation led to his being appointed mathematical examiner of the candidates for the East India Company's service.

Under the company's auspices he was enabled to publish in a handsome form several of his more important works:

1. A New and General Introduction to Practical Astronomy, with its application to Geography … Topography, octavo, London, 1774.
2. The Navigators Guide to the Oriental or Indian Seas, or the Description and Use of a Variation Chart of the Magnetic Needle, designed for shewing the Longitude throughout the principal parts of the Atlantic, Ethiopic, and Southern Oceans, octavo, London (1775).
3. A New Epitome of Practical Navigation, or Guide to the Indian Seas, containing (1) the Elements of Mathematical Learning, used … in the Theory and Practice of Nautical affairs; (2) the Theory of Navigation. ..; (3) the Method of Correcting and Determining the Longitude at Sea …; (4) the Practice of Navigation in all kinds of Sailing (with copper plates), octavo, London, 1777, and
4. The Theory and Practice of the Longitude at Sea … with copper plates, octavo, London, 1778; second edition, enlarged, quarto, London, 1786.[5]

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