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Description

Contains two plates.

Subject: Engineering

Read 19 June 1766

Reference number
L&P/4/340
Earliest possible date
23 March 1766
Physical description
Ink on paper and two plates
Page extent
5 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

James Ferguson

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James Ferguson, Paper, 'Of a clock showing the age and phases of the Moon and the tides' by James Ferguson, 23 March 1766, L&P/4/340, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_340/paper-of-a-clock-showing-the-age-and-phases-of-the-moon-and-the-tides-by-james-ferguson, accessed on 16 June 2025

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