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Paper, 'Account of the equatorial instrument' by George Augustus William Shuckburgh

Reference number: L&P/10/43

Date: 1793

Description

Contains five plates.

Subject: Scientific instruments/Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the equatorial instrument'

Read 21 March 1793

Reference number
L&P/10/43
Earliest possible date
1793
Physical description
Ink on paper and five plates
Page extent
65 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

George Augustus William Shuckburgh-Evelyn

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George Augustus William Shuckburgh-Evelyn, Paper, 'Account of the equatorial instrument' by George Augustus William Shuckburgh, 1793, L&P/10/43, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_43/paper-account-of-the-equatorial-instrument-by-george-augustus-william-shuckburgh, accessed on 29 April 2025

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