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IN NATURE of October 29 appeared a letter on the above subject from Dr. de Graaf Hunter. A consideration of the geodetic literature of the last few years seems to indicate that he is a little pessimistic in his estimate of the errors likely to creep into longitude determination through the imperfect elimination of ‘personal equation’ by the modern transit micrometer.
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JOLLY, H. Time Determination. Nature 130, 964–965 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130964b0
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