Die vermittelst eines kunstlich eingerichteten und ganz accuraten Automatons, oder von selbts-gehenden Uhrwercks zu findende Longitudo ...

Item author: John Carte
Item date: 1708
Grant Value: 1,125
Item cost: 3,500
Item date acquired: 1999
Item institution: British Library
Town/City: London

A very rare and early contribution to the subject of determining longitude, written by an Englishman resident in Hamburg, but printed, as far as it is known, only in this German translation, which is accompanied by an original English poem and a previously unrecorded world map. Illustrated at p.17 of AR