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Paper, 'Description and use of an improv'd aequinochial dial' by Richard Graham

Reference number: CLP/3ii/34

Date: 16 March 1731

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Graham shares a description and the uses of an improved equinoctial dial. He states that he finished the model of the dial in 1717 and now presents his paper giving an account of it with the use in finding the time by the sun or stars.

Subject: Engineering / Nautical Astronomy

Read to the Royal Society on 16 March 1731

Reference number
CLP/3ii/34
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16 March 1731
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Richard Graham

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Richard Graham, Paper, 'Description and use of an improv'd aequinochial dial' by Richard Graham, 16 March 1731, CLP/3ii/34, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_3ii_34/paper-description-and-use-of-an-improvd-aequinochial-dial-by-richard-graham, accessed on 21 April 2026

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    The 'Classified Papers' of the Royal Society are papers from British and international natural philosophers and scholars categorised according to subject areas.

    Dates: 1592 - 1741

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