"find" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- His scientific works ranged from astronomy, optics, the problem of finding longitude at sea, cosmology, mechanics, microscopy, surveying, medicine and meteorology.
- While determining latitude was relatively easy, early ocean navigators had to rely on dead reckoning to find longitude.
- The H.5 is a refined version of his H.4 timepiece, which solved the mystery of how to find longitude at sea.
- However, Slocum's primary method for finding longitude was still dead reckoning; he recorded only one lunar observation during the entire circumnavigation.
- Jeremy Thacker was an 18th-century writer and watchmaker, who coined the word "chronometer" for precise clocks designed to find longitude at sea.
- The aeronauts found themselves, at about eight in the evening, in thirty-two degrees forty minutes east longitude, and four degrees seventeen minutes latitude.
- The problem facing both explorers and geographers was finding the latitude and longitude of a geographic location.
- The observer's position is somewhere along the position line, not necessarily at the found longitude at the assumed latitude.
- Vigan can be found 120 23' 15" east longitude and 17 34' 30" north latitude.
- They all helped solve the problem of finding longitude accurately at sea and to chart vast ares of ocean and thousands of miles of coast line.
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