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that the money was not the incentive, but instead the important improvements to navigation and cartography. Other recipients, such as Kendall and Harrison had to appeal to the Board of Longitude and other governmental officials for adequate compensation for their work. Still others submitted radical and impractical theories, some of which can be seen in a collection at Harvard's Houghton Library. Schemes and ideas for improvements to instruments and astronomy, both practical and impractical, can be seen

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