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Paper, table showing the tides of the River Thames [London] using the marine surveyor by Henry de Saumarez

Reference number: CLP/7ii/10

Date: 1726

Description

De Saumarez shares tables measuring the tides of the River Thames to demonstrate his marine surveyor. Followed by a page of original figures of the marine surveyor and ships on water.

Subject: Scientific apparatus and instruments / Oceanography

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Observations upon the tides in the River Thames, by Mr. Henry de Saumarez' and 'A further account of a new machine, called the marine surveyor, designed for the mensuration of the way of a ship at sea, more correctly than by the log, at present in use, or any other method hitherto invented for that purpose. By Mr. Henry De Saumarez, of the Island of Guernsey, part of His Majesty's antient Dutchy of Normandy'

Reference number
CLP/7ii/10
Earliest possible date
1726
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
5 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, table showing the tides of the River Thames [London] using the marine surveyor by Henry de Saumarez, 1726, CLP/7ii/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_7ii_10/paper-table-showing-the-tides-of-the-river-thames-london-using-the-marine-surveyor-by-henry-de-saumarez, accessed on 27 April 2025

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