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Letter, 'An account of a trigonometrical survey of 1795-4' from Edward Williams, William Mudge and Isaac Dalby to Joseph Banks

Reference number: L&P/11/27

Date: 27 March 1797

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Subject: Mathematics/Geography

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the trigonometrical survey, carried on in the years 1795, and 1796, by order of the Marquis Cornwallis, Master General of the Ordance'

Read 11 May 1797

Reference number
L&P/11/27
Earliest possible date
27 March 1797
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Ink on paper
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41 pages
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Manuscript

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William Mudge

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William Mudge, Letter, 'An account of a trigonometrical survey of 1795-4' from Edward Williams, William Mudge and Isaac Dalby to Joseph Banks, 27 March 1797, L&P/11/27, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_27/letter-an-account-of-a-trigonometrical-survey-of-1795-4-from-edward-williams-william-mudge-and-isaac-dalby-to-joseph-banks, accessed on 13 October 2024

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