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INDEX

A

Academie des Sciences de Paris, 25

Act of Uniformity, 31, 235

The Admiralty, 10, 48, 65, 69, 79, 147, 230

Halley’s trust in, 63, 155

High Court of, 49

Pepys as Secretary of, 89, 187, 236

Adventure Galley, 120

Albergaria, Dom Manuel Soares, 61, 198

Alchemy

Boyle’s fascination with, 136

Newton’s interest in, 74, 136, 238

Alfrey, George, ship’s surgeon, 10

Altitudes of the sun, measuring, 40, 85

Amicable Society, 123

Anguilla, 125

“Animal magnetism,” 138

Anne, Queen, 139–140, 156, 158–160, 163, 243

death of, 162

Antarctica

Halley’s close approach to, 99–100, 104, 191

Royal Society’s base named after Halley, 194

Aristotle, 26, 31

Articles of Religion, 31

Arundel House, 25

Asimov, Isaac, 181

Aston, Francis, 109

Astrolabe, 40

Astronimia Carolina, 238

Atkinson, James, 94

Atlas Maritimus, 94

Aubrey, John, 35, 50

Aurora borealis, 175–176

Australia, 104, 119, 239

Azimuth compass, 208, 236

Azimuth of the sun, calculating directly, 47

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B

Bacon, Francis, 25

Bainbridge, John, 234

Banns, reading of, 124–125

Barbados, 62, 112, 117

Barbary corsairs, 48, 237

Bartels, Julius, 144

“Battle of the Books,” 8, 24, 27, 30, 36, 130, 183, 191

Bay of Tonkin. See Gulf of Tonkin

Beefeaters, 72

Benbow, Rear Admiral John, 17, 38

Benguela current, 101

Bentley, Richard, 27

Bermuda, 125–126, 129, 136, 208

Bernard, Edward, 31

Biggs, Bartholomew, 49

Binnacle, 43

Biographia Britannica, 187

Bloodless Revolution, 22

Bloodletting, 118–119

Board of Longitude, 166, 189

Bond, Henry, 41

Book of Common Prayer, 31

Books, on board the Paramore, 94–95

Borough, William, 136

Boston Gazette, 178

Boucher, Charles, 109

Boyle, Charles, 27

Boyle, Robert, 25, 30, 52, 132, 135

fascination with alchemy, 136

Bradley, James, 167

Brahe, Tycho, 51, 55

Bryant, Humphry, 126

Buccaneers, 49

Burchett, Secretary Josiah (of the Admiralty), 39, 58, 62–63, 101, 118, 155, 195, 197–201

Burnet, Thomas, 27–28

Burney, James, 62, 237

Burton, Thomas, 9

Butts, Mathew, gunner’s mate, 9

C

Cambridge University, 55, 73, 235

Cape Bona Esperance, 209

Cape of Good Hope, 4, 101

Cape Verde islands, 55, 90–91, 197–198, 208

Caroline Code, 237

Cassini, Giovanni Domenico, 22–23, 51, 105–106, 164–165, 239

Castro, John de, 40

Caswell, John, 233

Catherine, Queen, 166

Celsius, Anders, 142, 176

Chain of command, 66

Chapman, Sydney, 144, 230

Charles II, King, 25, 41–42, 51, 184, 244

constellation dedicated to, 55

Cheseaux, J. P. Loys de, 178

Child, Sir Francis, 20

Chiropractics, 138

Church of England, 124, 235

conservatism of, 31

controversy with, 36, 177

Cinchona bark, helping thwart malaria, 119

Citrus juices, warding off scurvy, 121

The City of London, 20

Clark, James, 50

Clark, Sir George, 244

Clocks, 88, 92

adjusting, 52

developments in, 104, 162

using Jupiter’s moons as, 86–87

Cockburn, William, 118

Coins, innovation to prevent clipping, 114–115

Colbert, Jean Baptiste, 233

Coley, Henry, 42

Colonial trade, 88–89

Coloumb, Charles, 143

Columbus, Christopher, 16–17, 40

and magnetic variation, 232

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Comet craze, 182

Comets

Halley’s interest in, 22, 168–174

Halley’s predictions regarding, 178–180

Newton’s work on, 77, 170

Compasses.

See also Scientific instruments

adjusting, 42, 44

azimuth, 208, 236

construction of, 43–45

development of, 44

Halley’s use of, 43–44, 46, 92, 208

keeping in working order, 39–40

taking multiple readings of, 48

unknown inventor of, 139

Constable, Captain John, 159

Contraband, temptation to trade in, 61

Cook, Captain James, 103–104, 119, 188, 231, 239

Cooke, Margaret, 107

Copernicus, Nicolas, 104

theory of, 26–27, 104, 234

Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe, 230

Course correction, 208

Crabtree, William, 103

Curie temperature, 143

“Curved lines,” 128, 131, 190

The Cygnet, 119, 239

D

Dampier, William, 41, 47, 57, 69–70, 79, 94, 118–119, 235, 239

Dampster, Robert, carpenter’s servant, 9

Danger, harbingers of, 57

Davenport, Francis, 150–151

da Vinci, Leonardo, 148

Davis, Thomas, seaman, 9

Deacon, Margaret, 235

Dean, Sir Anthony, 89

Death sentence, 65.

See also Hangings

Declination. See Magnetic variation (declination)

“Deflection of magnetic needle,” 16

Defoe, Daniel, 12, 125, 238

De Magnete, 92, 185, 240

De Moivre, Abraham, 74, 123

De Motu, 75

Deptford, 9, 15, 43, 127, 149, 156, 159, 201

Descartes, René, 26, 104

Diana Peak, 51

Diet aboard ship, 120–121

Discipline on long ocean voyages, 10, 59, 62, 65–66

Discourse on Pirates, 11

Diseases, 119–120

Distances at sea, measuring, 45

Divine intervention, denunciation of, 28

Diving equipment, Halley’s interest in, 114, 116, 240

Divining rod, 136

Dodson, John, boatswain and gunner, 9

Dowty, William, carpenter’s mate, 9

Dryden, John, mingling with Royal Society fellows, 18

Dunbar, John, midshipman, 9

Dutch East India Company, 5, 141

Dutton, Humphrey, 161

E

The Earth

bulging at its equator, 52, 164

creation of, 32

distance from Sun, 102–103

distance from Venus, 103

early history of, 176–177

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Earth’s magnetism, 4, 42, 92, 131–132, 189–190

contribution to navigational problems, 6

geodynamics of, 189–190

reversals in, 190

East India Company, 42, 49, 51–53, 102, 233.

See also St. Helena

Empirical science, 25

English Channel, 12, 147–148, 154, 159

English Parliament, 88

The English Pilot, 94, 130

The Enlightenment, 182–183, 232–233

early, 24

Halley a champion of, 187

Halley’s comet a symbol of, 182

rationalizing intervention on foreign soils, 186

Epistolia de Magnete, 136

Erles, William, ship’s surgeon, 156

An Essay on Criticism, 27

Expeditions. See Scientific missions

F

The Falconbird, 84

Falkland Islands, 96, 141

Fernando de Loronho, 59, 196

Fernao Martins Mascarenhas de Lencastre, 111–112

Field, Richard, 53

Fisher, William, 94

Flamsteed, John, Astronomer Royal, 22–23, 35, 41, 50–51, 105–106, 132, 151–154, 160, 238, 242

Halley’s early contacts with, 50, 55

slandering Halley, 34–36, 108, 134–135, 142, 159

“Flying island” of Swift, 137

Folkes, Martin, 115, 154

Food rationing, 58.

See also Diet aboard ship

France

allied with the Dutch against England, 90

England’s war of attrition against, 4, 9

Franklin, Benjamin, 138

French Revolution, 183

Frisius, Gemma, 136

Full and True Account of the Battle Fought Last Friday, Between the Ancient and the Modern Books in St. James Library , 27

Funk, Gerald, 235

G

Gale, Thomas, 109

Galileo Galilei, 104, 148, 164

Gascoigne, William, 25, 51, 135

Gauss, Karl Friedrich, 143

Gazette, 71

Gellibrand, Henry, 41, 141

Geographic bounty, England’s continued interest in, 4, 186

Geomagnetism, 47, 132, 176, 189, 240

Halley’s interest in, 6, 39, 50

George, Prince of Denmark, 139, 160

George I, King, 162–163

George III, King, 103

Gilbert, William, 92, 131–132, 176, 185, 240

Gimbals, 40, 43

Glanvill, Joseph, 28

Glenn, James, seaman, 9

Global positioning systems, Halley laying groundwork for, 190

The Glorious Revolution, 19, 158, 183, 231

God, as “the Great Mechanic,” 26

God’s will, seeking evidence of in nature, 25

Graham, George, 142, 165, 189

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Graham, James, 138

Gravitational theory, of Newton, 13

Great Fire of London of 1666, 8, 19, 25, 72, 76

Greaves, John, 234

Greenwich Observatory, 23, 93, 166, 185, 193

founding of, 41, 54, 70, 235

Halley named Astronomer Royal at, 163–165

reequipping, 165

site of, 7

Gregorian calendar, 229

Gregory, James, 103

Grey, Ralph, 117

Guillotin, Joseph, 138

Gulf of Tonkin, 152–153, 242

Gulliver’s Travels, 137, 239

The Guynie, 113–114

H

Halley, Captain Edmond, 16.

See also Royal Society of London

a champion of the Enlightenment, 187

charged with improving navigation, 12, 39, 89–90, 113–114

close approach to Antarctica, 99–100, 104, 191

contradictions within, 186

contributions in mathematics, 163

contributions to geophysics, 142

critics of, 34

death of, 178

difficulties handling his first crew, 60–63

diplomacy of, 106, 187–188

early contacts with Flamsteed, 50, 55

elected secretary of the Royal Society, 28, 196

first voyage of, 1–79

friend of Isaac Newton, 3, 116, 180, 183

gaining prominence from

association with Newton, 31, 78–79, 171

grieving loss of cabin boy, 84–85, 87

intelligence collection by, 154, 157

interest in a hollow earth, 174–175, 243

interest in astronomy, 50, 78

interest in comets, 22, 157 168–174

interest in diving equipment, 114, 116, 240

interest in geomagnetism, 6, 39, 50, 133–136, 138, 175

interest in hurricanes, 113

interest in social relationships, 122

interest in the aurora borealis, 175–176

journal entries from, 196–197, 203–204

laying groundwork for global positioning systems, 190

made Astronomer Royal, 163

a meticulous observer, 85, 87–88, 149–150

most important accomplishments of, 104, 188

murder of his father, 71–73

navigational talents of, 12, 209, 231

Pepys complimenting his character, 12

plan to survey the world magnetic field, 6

posthumous honors received by, 194

predictions regarding comets, 178–180

religious stance of, 31–34, 171–172, 176–177

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role in publication of Newton’s Principia, 76–79

royal decree given to, 3

second voyage of, 81–144

slandered by Flamsteed, 34–36, 108, 134–135, 142, 159

slanders against, 34–36, 64, 73

social status of, 5, 22

southern star charts of, 55

speculating that a comet triggered the flood, 33–34

taking over publishing the Philosophical Transactions, 109

third voyage of, 145–191

tomb of, 194

use of compasses, 43–44, 46, 92, 208

view of poverty, 122

vision of, 24

wife of, Mary Tooke, 12, 121, 178

work on gunnery, 155

work on magnetic variation, 46

work on mortality tables, 121–123

work on tides, 147–152, 156

the world as his laboratory, 4, 43, 56

youth and education of, 49–50

Halley, Edmond, Sr., 71–73

“Halleyan lines,” 129

“Halleymania,” 181

Halley’s comet, 179

a symbol of the Enlightenment, 182

Halley’s World Chart of Magnetic Variations, 138–142, 207–210

Hangings, 66–68

The Hannibal, 112

Hanover, 159

Hansteen, Christopher, 143

Harding, Fisher, master shipwright, 15

Harmon, Caleb, clerk, 9

Harris, John, 129

Harrison, Edward, first lieutenant, 10–11, 16, 44, 47–48, 95

defying Halley, 62–63

resentment against Halley, 68

trial of, 64–70, 238

Harrison, John, 162, 243

Harrison clock, 189

Harvey, William, 27

Hawley, Thomas, 73

Health remedies, link to magnetics, 136

Hellmann, G., 131

Hevelius, Catherine Elisabeth, 106, 108

slander about her and Halley, 35, 108

Hevelius, Johannes, 30, 51, 105–110

Historia Coelestis, 160, 166

Hjorter, Olaf, 176

Hobbes, Thomas, 26

Hodges, John, boatswain’s servant, 9

Holland, allied with the French against England, 90

Hooke, Robert, 18, 22–26, 30, 41, 70–71, 74–75, 105–109, 116, 133–137, 164, 172–173, 233

Horrocks, Jeremiah, 55, 103

Hoskins, Sir John, 109, 230

House of Stuart, 162, 239

Humankind’s faith in itself, struggle to boost, 37

Humboldt, Alexander von, 142–143, 230, 241

Hurricane season, Halley’s discovery of, 113

Huygens, Christiaan, 104, 136

Hygiene, personal, 120

Hypnosis, 138

I

Idea Longitudinis, 10, 47–48, 95

An Idea of Geography and Navigation, 94

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Independent study, 55, 234.

See also Published papers

Industrial Revolution, laying the foundation for, 89

Ingoldsby, Peter, seaman, 9

Inquiry, spirit of, 184

Instruments. See Scientific instruments

International scientific cooperation, 140, 154, 191

Inverse square law, of planetary motion, 71–76, 172

Isle of Wight, 17

Isogonic lines, 129, 141

J

James I, King, 239

James II, King, 6, 22, 73, 90, 152

Jonathan’s (coffee house), 18

Julian calendar, 229

Julius Caesar, first invasion of England, Halley calculating the place and date of, 112–113, 190

Jupiter’s moons

and longitude, 238

using as clocks, 86–87

Justel, Henri, 23

K

Kendal watch, 189

Kensington Palace, 8

Kepler, Johannes, 70–71, 75, 102, 104, 132

Kidd, Captain, 19, 64, 67, 120

“Knots,” measuring speed at sea, 45, 150

Knowledge

as great as angels’, 37

Halley a dedicated servant to, 188

Kohoutek, Lubos, 181

L

Laboratory, of Halley’s, the entire world as, 4, 43, 56

Laputa, 137

Laudian Statutes of 1636, 237

Lavoisier, Antoine, 138

Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van, 29

Levant Company, 21–22

Line of no variation, 40, 208

Livro de Marinharia, 40

Locke, John, 19, 72, 183

Lodestones, 44–45

Logbook, 92, 127

concept of, 45

Log line, 45, 150, 188

London Gazette, 71

London society, 5.

See also Great Fire of London of 1666;

Tower of London

complex hierarchy of, 36

haunts frequented by intellectuals, 18, 25

love of hangings, 66–68

periodicals in, 20

The Longitude Act, 161–162, 185, 243

Longitude calculations, 43, 61, 87, 91, 164, 200, 232, 244

contribution of chronometer to, 242

estimating, 209

geomagnetic scheme for, 47

The Longitude Found, 41

Longitude marker, 193

Louis XIV, King of France, 23, 90, 158, 233

Louis XVI, King of France, 138

Lunar tables, 86

M

MacPike, Eugene, 84, 183

Madeira, 38, 42, 84, 90, 197

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Magellan, Ferdinand, 97

Magellan’s Straits, 4

“Magnet,” derivation of, 44–45

Magnetic forces of Earth, mysterious, 4, 128

Magnetic storms, 142–143, 176

Magnetic variation (declination), 61, 129

and Christopher Columbus, 232

earlier tables of, 241

the key measurement, 39–41, 46, 208

slow change in, 209

Magnetism, 39, 244

Halley’s interest in, 3

Halley’s plan to survey, 6

Magnetometer, development of, 143–144

Mainwaring, Sir Henry, 11

Malaria, cinchona bark helping thwart, 119

Marijuana, 119–120

Marine science, 235

Mariners, importance to English society, 6–7

Marriage Act, 125

Marriages, 124–125

Martin, Benjamin, 179

Mary II, Queen, 3, 6, 78–79, 158

plans continued after her death, 7–9, 100, 130–131

Masklyne, Nevil, 167

Mathematical knowledge, 152–153

Medicine of the 17th century

bloodletting, 118–119

lagging behind other sciences, 119

magnetic remedies in, 137–138

Mercantilism, 88

Mercator, Gerardus, 129, 241

Mercator projection maps, 90, 129

Mercury

path with the Ecliptic, 54

transit across disk of the Sun, 102, 105

Mesmer, Franz Anton, 137–138

Mesmerism, 138

Messier, Charles, 179

Micrographia, 26

Micrometers, improved, 25

Middleton, Benjamin, 229

Missions. See Scientific missions

The Moon, 165

crater named after Halley, 194

Halley planning observations of, 163

irregular motion of, 86

Newton’s work on, 160, 236

observing eclipse of, 61, 110

passing in front of a fixed star in Virgo, 91

seasonal changes in, 151

using cycles of to determine longitude, 164

Moore, Sir Jonas, 54

Morocco, 48

Mortality tables, 121

Moslems, raids on Christian ships by, 48

Mount, Richard, 129

Mount, William, 210

Moxon, Joseph, 50, 95

Multiple readings, 48

simultaneous, 102

Munden, Real Admiral, 147–148

Mutiny at sea, 65–66

N

“Natural philosophy,” 7

Nature, 231

Nature, seeking evidence of God’s will in, 25

Nautical Almanac, 167

Naval Minutes, 230

Navigation

based on astronomy, 85

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Halley charged with improving, 12, 39, 89–90, 113–114

search for better techniques for, 39, 93–94

Navigation Acts, 88–90

Nelson, Robert, 22

Neoclassicism, 26

The New Exchange, 56

Newfoundland, 126, 129, 161, 200

Newhouse, Daniel, 94

The “new philosophy,” 235

New Theory of the Earth, 177

Newton, Samuel, 94

Newton, Sir Isaac, 30, 52, 140, 172–174

becoming president of the Royal Society, 159

critics of, 34

death of, 177

difficulty accepting the doctrine of the trinity, 31

education of, 55

friend of Halley’s, 3, 24, 73–75, 116, 180, 183

gravitational theory of, 13

interest in alchemy, 74, 136, 238

interest in optics, 74

legislative influence of, 161

mathematical logic of, 8

natural forces explained by, 27, 77, 170, 180

publication of the Principia, 18, 30–32, 136, 148, 237–238

work at the Mint, 9

work on comets, 77, 170

work on tides, 77

A New Voyage Round the World, 94

Northern lights. See Aurora borealis

North Pole

angular distance to, 85

geographic, 43

The North Star, 43

Nostrums, in 17th century London, 21

Nunez, Pedro, 40, 236

O

Of Ancient and Modern Learning, 26

Oldenburg, Henry, 29, 137

Oliver, Captain S. P., 191, 230

Opium, 119

Opticks, 116

Oxford Philosophical Society, 173

Oxford University, 50–51, 235, 237

P

Page, Thomas, 129, 210

Palitzch, Johann George, 179

Paraiba, 61, 198

Parallax of the Sun, 54

The Paramore, 5–9, 14–19, 22–23, 38, 42, 68, 230–231

books on board, 94–95

caught among icebergs, 99–100

crew of, 9–10, 60–65, 83–84, 200

described, 5

eventual sale of, 159

first voyage of, 1–79

a floating observatory, 93

guiding, 46

Halley’s disappointment in, 15

loss of cabin boy from, 84–85

maintaining, 59–60

mistaken attacks on, 55–56, 111–112

second voyage of, 81–144

shortcomings of, 14–16, 79, 83

southernmost point reached by, 95–101

third voyage of, 145–191

wages records of, 202–203

Peace of Ryswick, 9

Pepys, Samuel, 64–65, 89, 119, 187, 204, 230, 236

complimenting Halley’s character, 12

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role in building the British Navy, 244

as Secretary of the Admiralty, 89, 187, 236

Peregrinus, Petros, 136–137

Perkins, Peter, 134, 174

Personal hygiene, 120

Peter the Great, 115

Phase transitions, magnetism offering ways to study, 189

Philosophical Transactions. See Royal Society of London

Physics, in low dimensions, magnetism offering ways to study, 189

Pinfold, Richard, captain’s servant, 9, 149

“Pinks,” 5, 14–15, 38–39, 58, 79

Piracy, 237

danger of, 48

punishment for, 66–68

“Plain Chart” reckoning, 90

Planetary motion, Kepler’s laws of, 70–71, 132

Plato, 26, 31

Plymouth, 63

The Plymouth, 149

Polo, Marco, 5

The Pool of London, 11

Pope, Alexander, 26–27

Popery, “abomination” of, 19

Portsmouth harbor, 16–17

Post Man, 20–21

Price, Richard, boatswain, 156

Price, Thomas, carpenter, 9

The Principia, 18, 30–32, 76–79, 136, 148, 237–238

second edition of, 171–172

Privateers, 49

Ptolemy, 104–105, 234

Public spirit, British concept of, 231

Published papers, by university students, 55

Punishment. See Discipline on long ocean voyages

Purcell, Henry, 7

Q

Quadrant, 52, 92

Queen Anne’s War, 158, 161

Queen’s College, 31, 50

Queiros, Pedro Fernandez de, 5

R

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 185

Random disorder, magnetism offering ways to study, 189

Ray, John, 142

Reconciliation, between empirical studies and human values, 191

Religion, dominating English life, 31

Resection method, in surveying, 156

Rio de Janeiro, 91–92, 101, 129

Robinson, Tancred, 109

Robinson Crusoe, 12, 238

The Roebuck, 239

Roemer, Olaus, 164

“Round robin” mutinies, 66, 237

Royal African Company, 84, 113

The Royal Mint, 9, 72, 114, 188

Newton’s work at, 9

The Royal Navy, 10–11, 59, 65, 69, 89, 118, 231–232

Halley’s letters to, 195

Halley’s many services to, 188

Royal Observatory. See Greenwich Observatory

Royal Society of London, 11, 28–35, 52, 105–106, 115, 130, 132, 137, 177, 184, 233

criteria for nomination to, 25

establishment of, 230

Halley as clerk of, 34, 70, 188

Halley as secretary of, 140

Halley’s election to, 55

Halley’s election to the council of, 159

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Halley’s friends within, 6, 12, 24, 109

Halley’s presentations to, 32–33, 169, 171, 175, 182, 188

“Magnetics Committee” of, 132

Newton’s role in, 159, 235

Philosophical Transactions of, 21, 29–30, 50, 76, 109, 140, 164, 182, 233, 240

resented by the universities, 234–235

secretaries of, 30, 109, 137, 142, 233

soliciting sea observations from the maritime community, 39

Rye House Plot, 72

S

St. Christopher’s. See St. Kitts

St. Elmo’s Fire, 57

St. Helena, 21, 35, 42, 49, 51–55, 100–102, 106, 108–109, 129, 133, 160, 190, 208, 233

St. James Church, 124

St. Kitts, 118, 125

St. Paul’s Cathedral, 19

St. Paul’s School, 50

St. Pierre, Le Sieur de, 41

Sallee, 17, 48

Sanitation, 120

Saros, observations of, 166, 236

“Saturday night at sea” tradition, 123

Savile, Sir Henry, 31

Savilian Professorship of Astronomy at Oxford, 7, 31, 130, 233

battle over Halley getting, 35, 175

Savilian Professorship of Geometry at Oxford, 159, 171, 233–234

Scepsis Scientifica, 28

Science, 7.

See also “Natural philosophy”

applying to military improvements, 154–155

as the companion of religion, 34

Scientific data, sharing, 140, 154, 180, 210

Scientific instruments, 15.

See also Diving equipment

descriptions of, 51, 86–87, 92–93

innovations in, 74, 92–93, 107, 143–144, 162, 165, 242

relative quality of, 23, 165

stowage for, 17

trade in, 165, 188

Scientific journals, invention of, 29

Scientific missions, 56, 69, 103, 191, 230

Scilly, 45, 209

Sea Chart. See Halley’s World Chart of Magnetic Variations

The Seaman’s New Epitome, 94

Secular variation, 242

Self-directed study, 55

Selkirk, Alexander, 238

Seller, John, 94–95

Sextant, 52, 92, 106

“Shadow instrument,” 40

Shaftesbury, Earl of, 183

Sharing scientific data, 140, 154

Shipboard routine, 58–59

Ship’s log. See Logbook

Shipwrecks

sheer numbers of, 39

treacherous weather blamed for half, 38

Shovell, Admiral Sir Clowidisley, 45, 65, 68, 70, 150, 20

Sinclair, Edward, 126

Sisson, Jonathan, 165

Slavery, 53

Sloane, Dr. Hans, 21, 30, 109, 142, 196

Social status, 5

Society for the Reformation of Manners, 19

Society of Assurance for Widows, 20

Southern constellations, 54

charting, 55

viewing, 42

South Georgia Island, 99

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Southwell, Sir Robert, 204–206

The Speedwell, 117

Spherical influences, 132

Spherical trigonometry, 46–47, 50

Spice Islands, 5

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants, 235, 238

Star catalogs, 105

Stevenson, Thomas, 178

Stillingfleet, Bishop Edward, 34

Straits of Magellan, 4

Streete, Thomas, 238

Stuarts. See House of Stuart

The Sun.

See also Altitudes of the sun;

Azimuth of the sun

Mercury’s transit across, 102, 105

parallax of, 54

Venus’s transit across, 103, 105, 188

Superstitions, 56–57, 67

Surveying work, 156, 204–207

Swift, Jonathan, 27, 137, 239

criticizing the moderns as atheists, 8, 26, 28–29

The Swiftsure, 64–65

Synopsis of Cometary Astronomy, 171

T

Tabloids, in 17th century London, 20

Tahiti, 103

Tarpaulins, 11, 69

Telescopes. See Scientific instruments

Telluris Theoria Sacra, 28

Temple, Sir William, 8, 26–27, 36

Teonge, Henry, 123

Terra incognita, 4–5, 92, 98–101

Thompson, John, seaman, 9

Thrower, Norman J. W., 241, 244

Tides

Halley’s work on, 147–152, 156

irregular, 151–153

Newton’s work on, 77

Tierra del Fuego, 97

Tooke, Mary, Halley’s wife, 12, 121, 178

Torture, 49

Tower of London, 67, 72, 149

Townley, Richard, 135

Trajectory problem, 155

Transit timings, 102, 105

Treaty of Utrecht, 161

Trinidada, 56, 110

Trinity, those having difficulty accepting doctrine of, 31, 33

Trinity College, 73, 75

Tristan da Cunha, 100–101

“True meridian,” of no variation, 40, 208

True north, 43

Tucker, George, mate, 126

Tyburn’s Tippet, 68

Typhoid, 117–118

U

The Unity, 49

U.S. Patent and Trade Office, 136

V

Venice, 111, 159

Venus, transit across disk of the Sun, 103, 105, 188

Villiers, Elizabeth, 131

Vinicot, John, seaman, 9

A Voyage to New Holland, 239

W

“Waggoners,” 94

Waghenaer, Lucas, 94

Wallis, John, 55, 130, 159, 173–174, 234

War of the Spanish Succession, 158

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Water

dowsing for, link to magnetics, 136

maintaining supplies of at sea, 58–59, 109–110

pumping, 59

Weather.

See also Shipwrecks discerning patterns in, 57, 93

Westfall, Richard S., 235

Westminster Abbey, 162, 177, 244

Whiston, William, 33, 161, 177, 235

White, Manly, cabin boy, 84

White light, Newton’s insights into, 74

The Whole Art of Navigation, 94

William and Mary, joint rule of, 31, 183–187

William and Mary College, 8

William III (William of Orange), King, 4, 7, 9, 15, 115, 130–131, 158

Willoughby, Lord Francis, 112

Wishard, David, seaman, 9

Withers, Samuel, seaman, 9

Women, opportunities for in science, 106–107

Woodward, Dr. John, 232

The world

command of the sea as key to, 185

Enlightenment players out to discover, 184

as Halley’s laboratory, 4, 43, 56

Wotton, William, 27

Wren, Sir Christopher, 8, 19, 22, 24, 30, 55, 70–71, 142

Wright, Captain William, 127

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