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Wolfgang,
Thanks for your guide to research.
I will try to find these things.
93 Euros for a book seems a bit too much for me, but I will try to see
what is available on Internet, using the keys you give.

Alex.

> Alex,
> there is, of course more literature on the "lunar story" in French (and
> France) than Marguet. An older treatise is: Guyot, Edmond, Histoire de la
> détermination des longitudes, La-Chaux-de-Fonds 1955, dealing with all
> methods to determine longitude. It is long out of print but you can buy it
> on the net for a mere 92,96 Euros (plus postage).
> Lately Guy Boistel has done a doctoral thesis on "L`astronomie nautique au
> XVIIIème siècle en France: tables de la lune et longitudes en mer",
> s.l.,s.d. (probably Lille 2003, Atelier Nationale de Reproduction des
> Thèses) and published some more articles on that subject. And there is a
> collection of texts edited by Vincent Jullien: Le calcul des longitudes,
> Rennes 2002, with contributions by Vincent Jullien, Susanne Débarbat,
> Francois Bellec, Danielle Fauque, Philippe Despoix, Guy Boistel and some
> others, the cream of french historians of nautical science.
> As one can see there is a lively discussion in France with a lot of
> research being done that isn't recognized abroad. Same with the
> discussions in Portugal where there is a host of people centered around
> the Academia de Marinha doing interesting research. But one has to be able
> to read more than English to be aware of this.
> By the way: The Dutch have also been very much interested in the longitude
> problem since the 17th century: Huygens - who tried to construct a marine
> time keeper himself (without success) - acted as an expert for the Staten
> General and the OIC to assess the merits of proposals that were sent to
> these bodies - most of them by cranks and/or not really useful.
> Same with the Spanish. And the first nautical treatise on the longitude
> problem was by a Portuguese: Ruy Faleiro, O regimento da altura de
> Leste-Oeste (ca. 1519), first published by Avelino Texeira da Mota and
> reedited in 1986.
>
> Have fun
> Wolfgang
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