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Longitude Act: The rewards, Background & Overview

The Longitude Act 1714 (13 Ann. c. 14), also known as the Discovery of Longitude at Sea Act 1713, was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in July 1714 at the end of the reign of Queen Anne. It established the Board of Longitude and established a inducement prize contest (the longitude rewards) for anyone who could find a simple and practical…

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Longitude Act topic overview

The analysis highlights The rewards, Background and Overview as prominent areas in the source structure around Longitude Act.

Related topics
23
Source areas
3
Connected nodes
26
Extracted relationships
47
Concept neighborhoods
16
Bridge connections
26

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

The rewards · 11 topics
Overview · 8 topics
Background · 4 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Amended by
Discovery of Longitude at Sea Act 1753 · Discovery of Longitude at Sea Act 1762 · Discovery of Longitude at Sea (John Harrison) Act 1763 · Discovery of Longitude at Sea Act 1774
Citation
13 Ann. c. 14[a] · 12 Ann. St. 2. c. 15[b]
Commencement
16 February 1714[c]
Long title
An Act for Providing a Publick Reward for such Person or Persons as shall Discover the Longitude at Sea.
Relates to
Discovery of Longitude at Sea, etc. Act 1821 · Nautical Almanack Act 1828
Repealed
8 May 1818

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Overview

Background

The rewards

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Longitude Act connects Entity context

The extracted context around Longitude Act shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Longitude Act → As, Following, For, History, July, May, Merchants, Parliament, Scientists, Scilly, Seamen Petition, This, While Another extracted example is Longitude Act → Board, Discovery, Geo, John Harrison, Longitude, Longitude's, Many, Other, Parliament, Sea Act, Subsequent Longitude Acts, The, Tobias Mayer's. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Longitude Act

Top relations

related to background · 13
Longitude Act → As, Following, For, History, July, May, Merchants, Parliament, Scientists, Scilly, Seamen Petition, This, While
related to The rewards · 13
Longitude Act → Board, Discovery, Geo, John Harrison, Longitude, Longitude's, Many, Other, Parliament, Sea Act, Subsequent Longitude Acts, The, Tobias Mayer's
related to Further reading · 8
Longitude Act → Alexi Baker, Board, Cambridge Digital LibraryImage, July, Longitude, Longitude Acts, Parliamentary Archives, University
Amended by · 4
Longitude Act → Discovery of Longitude at Sea (John Harrison) Act 1763, Discovery of Longitude at Sea Act 1753, Discovery of Longitude at Sea Act 1762, Discovery of Longitude at Sea Act 1774
Citation · 2
Longitude Act → 12 Ann. St. 2. c. 15[b], 13 Ann. c. 14[a]
Relates to · 2
Longitude Act → Discovery of Longitude at Sea, etc. Act 1821, Nautical Almanack Act 1828
Commencement · 1
Longitude Act → 16 February 1714[c]
Long title · 1
Longitude Act → An Act for Providing a Publick Reward for such Person or Persons as shall Discover the Longitude at Sea.
Repealed · 1
Longitude Act → 8 May 1818
Repealed by · 1
Longitude Act → Discovery of Longitude at Sea, etc. Act 1818

Important terminology

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Important terminology

longitude act sea discovery rewards 000 etc ann 1714 parliament board acts 1818 nautical 13 14 offered 20 geo july

Longitude Act relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 47 structured relationships around Longitude Act. Examples in this analysis include Longitude Act → Amended by → Discovery of Longitude at Sea Act 1753 and Longitude Act → Amended by → Discovery of Longitude at Sea Act 1762. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

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Longitude ActAmended byDiscovery of Longitude at Sea Act 17531.00infobox
Longitude ActAmended byDiscovery of Longitude at Sea Act 17621.00infobox
Longitude ActAmended byDiscovery of Longitude at Sea (John Harrison) Act 17631.00infobox
Longitude ActAmended byDiscovery of Longitude at Sea Act 17741.00infobox
Longitude ActCitation13 Ann. c. 14[a]1.00infobox
Longitude ActCitation12 Ann. St. 2. c. 15[b]1.00infobox
Longitude ActCommencement16 February 1714[c]1.00infobox
Longitude ActLong titleAn Act for Providing a Publick Reward for such Person or Persons as shall Discover the Longitude at Sea.1.00infobox
Longitude ActRelates toDiscovery of Longitude at Sea, etc. Act 18211.00infobox
Longitude ActRelates toNautical Almanack Act 18281.00infobox
Longitude ActRepealed8 May 18181.00infobox
Longitude ActRepealed byDiscovery of Longitude at Sea, etc. Act 18181.00infobox
Longitude ActRoyal assent9 July 17141.00infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Longitude Act bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Sea, Longitude and Discovery. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

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    • Mw-parser-output
    • July
    • Long
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    • Discovery
    • Geo
    • Longitude
    • Rewards

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Longitude Act, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Longitude Act with The rewards. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Longitude ActThe rewards · splits 15 ⟂ 12
Longitude ActOverview · splits 18 ⟂ 9
Longitude ActBackground · splits 22 ⟂ 5

Map overview Semantic statistics

Longitude Act

Nodes27
Edges26
Triples47
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.074074
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Longitude Act to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as The rewards, Background & Overview, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Longitude Act · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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