1To Thomas Jefferson from Hannah Lowe, 10 October 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
As President of the Philosophycal Society, I take the Liberty of laying before you a method of ascertaining the Longitude with the same precision that at present obtains in fixing the latitude, which is Simply this. in Reflecting upon what happens to all navigator who sail round the world, in one direction they loose a day, in the other they gain one, it occured to me, that it might be, that...