Paper, 'Of improvements in the mariner's compass, to render the card and needle proposed by Dr Knight of general use' by John Smeaton
Reference number: L&P/2/164
Date: 1750
Description
Contains plate.
Subject: Engineering
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of some improvements of the mariners compass, in order to render the card and needle, proposed by Doctor Knight, of general use, by John Smeaton, philosophical instrument-maker.'
Read 5 July 1750
- Reference number
- L&P/2/164
- Earliest possible date
- 1750
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 5 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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John Smeaton, Paper, 'Of improvements in the mariner's compass, to render the card and needle proposed by Dr Knight of general use' by John Smeaton, 1750, L&P/2/164, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_164/paper-of-improvements-in-the-mariners-compass-to-render-the-card-and-needle-proposed-by-dr-knight-of-general-use-by-john-smeaton, accessed on 15 May 2025
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