Extract of a letter, from J Biester [to the Royal Society], dated at London
Reference number: EL/B2/124
Date: 16 December 1731
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Biester hopes that the Royal Society will consider his experiments to find the longitude at sea from the right ascension of the moon
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- EL/B2/124
- Earliest possible date
- 16 December 1731
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- 2 pages
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- Manuscript
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J Biester
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J Biester, Extract of a letter, from J Biester [to the Royal Society], dated at London, 16 December 1731, EL/B2/124, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_b2_124/extract-of-a-letter-from-j-biester-to-the-royal-society-dated-at-london, accessed on 13 September 2024
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