Paper, 'An easy, simple and entire new method for finding a true meridian line' by Thomas Wright
Reference number: CLP/8ii/46
Date: 18 December 1735
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Wright shares a method which involves the use of two plumb lines, 'plac'd at a proper distance', in order to take two 'oriental' and 'occidental' measurements to produce 'two infallible lines forming an angle, given; which if you bisect, the middle line, will be an absolute meridian.'
Subject: Astronomy
Read to the Royal Society on 18 December 1735
- Reference number
- CLP/8ii/46
- Earliest possible date
- 18 December 1735
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- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Paper, 'An easy, simple and entire new method for finding a true meridian line' by Thomas Wright, 18 December 1735, CLP/8ii/46, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_8ii_46/paper-an-easy-simple-and-entire-new-method-for-finding-a-true-meridian-line-by-thomas-wright, accessed on 13 October 2024
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