Abstract
Captain Cook's methods of determining longitude were more error-prone and uncertain than is commonly understood. He relied on astronomical measurements that had inherently large error margins. Contrary to popular perception, there is no longitude value in the surviving records that is attributable to the transit of Mercury observation in 1769. The Mercury transit timings obtained were not accurate enough to derive the true longitude.
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