Paper, 'Description and use of an improv'd aequinochial dial' by Richard Graham
Reference number: CLP/3ii/34
Date: 16 March 1731
Description
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
- Earliest possible date
- 16 March 1731
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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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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Classified Papers
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Dates: 1592 - 1741
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