Assertion: latitude | /r/HasProperty | computed fore
Facets:
value: thence her distance
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: However, I own, it is rather to be wished, that such parts of the computations as conveniently can, were made previously at land by capable persons, and published, from time to time, for the common benefit of navigation; especially, as not only the much greater, but also the nicest part of the calculations is of this kind: for if the moon’s longitude and latitude were but computed fore every twelve hours in the year, and thence her distance from the sun or a proper star on each side of her, was calculated carefully for every six hours, and the computations published a convenient space of time before-hand, I do not see why the longitude might not be universally found at sea by this method, as the latitude is at present.