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Paper, 'Endeavours to ascertain a standard of weights and measures' by George Shuckburgh-Evelyn

Reference number: L&P/11/51

Date: 1798

Description

Contains three plates.

Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of some endeavours to ascertain a standard of weight and measure'

Read 22 February 1798

Reference number
L&P/11/51
Earliest possible date
1798
Physical description
Ink on paper and three plates
Page extent
59 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

George Augustus William Shuckburgh-Evelyn

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George Augustus William Shuckburgh-Evelyn, Paper, 'Endeavours to ascertain a standard of weights and measures' by George Shuckburgh-Evelyn, 1798, L&P/11/51, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_51/paper-endeavours-to-ascertain-a-standard-of-weights-and-measures-by-george-shuckburgh-evelyn, accessed on 12 March 2026

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