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Paper, 'Latitudes and longitudes of several places in Denmark, calculated from the trigonometrical operations' by Thomas Bugge

Reference number: L&P/10/68

Date: 14 June 1793

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Contains plate.

Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The latitudes and longitudes of several places in Denmark; calculated from the trigonometrical operations'

Read 9 January 1794

Reference number
L&P/10/68
Earliest possible date
14 June 1793
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Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
6 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Bugge

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Thomas Bugge, Paper, 'Latitudes and longitudes of several places in Denmark, calculated from the trigonometrical operations' by Thomas Bugge, 14 June 1793, L&P/10/68, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_68/paper-latitudes-and-longitudes-of-several-places-in-denmark-calculated-from-the-trigonometrical-operations-by-thomas-bugge, accessed on 13 June 2025

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