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Paper, 'Account of the trigonometrical survey carried on in the years 1791-4 by order of the Duke of Richmond' by Edward Williams, Isaac Dalby and William Mudge [Pages 1-59]

Reference number: L&P/10/126

Date: 1795

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Subject: Geography

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the trigonometrical survey carried on in the year 1791, 1792, 1793, and 1794, by order of his grace the Duke of Richmond, late Master General of the Ordnance'

Read 25 June 1795

Reference number
L&P/10/126
Earliest possible date
1795
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59 pages
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Manuscript

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William Mudge

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William Mudge, Paper, 'Account of the trigonometrical survey carried on in the years 1791-4 by order of the Duke of Richmond' by Edward Williams, Isaac Dalby and William Mudge [Pages 1-59], 1795, L&P/10/126, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_126/paper-account-of-the-trigonometrical-survey-carried-on-in-the-years-1791-4-by-order-of-the-duke-of-richmond-by-edward-williams-isaac-dalby-and-william-mudge-pages-1-59, accessed on 16 September 2024

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