Papers of Nevil Maskelyne

Papers on the formulae, instructions and diagrams for solving the problems of cometary orbits. There are articles on the comparisons of places of a comet from computed elements, calculating the Sun's longitude and radius vector, corrections of the motion of the 1682 comet, synopsis of calculations from observed places of a comet to find its future position, a difference table for the prediction of the place of a comet, distances of a comet from the Earth, its horizontal parallax and aberration, and its geocentric and heliocentric longitude and latitude.