Paper, 'The resolution of a general proposition for determining the horary alteration of the position of the terrestrial equator' by Thomas Simpson
Reference number: L&P/3/273
Date: 1757
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Subject: Geography
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The resolution of a general proposition for determining the horary alteration of the position of the terrestrial equator, from the attraction of the Sun and Moon: With some remarks on the solutions given by other authors to that difficult and important problem'
Read 22 December 1757
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Date: 31st December 1757
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1757.0054
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