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Paper, 'Observations on the quantity of horizontal refraction and method of measuring the dip at sea' [Bakerian Lecture] by William Hyde Wollaston

Reference number: L&P/12/37

Date: 1802

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The Bakerian Lecture. Observations on the quantity of horizontal refraction; with a method of measuring the dip at sea'

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L&P/12/37
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1802
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William Hyde Wollaston, Paper, 'Observations on the quantity of horizontal refraction and method of measuring the dip at sea' [Bakerian Lecture] by William Hyde Wollaston, 1802, L&P/12/37, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_12_37/paper-observations-on-the-quantity-of-horizontal-refraction-and-method-of-measuring-the-dip-at-sea-bakerian-lecture-by-william-hyde-wollaston, accessed on 12 November 2025

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