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Paper, 'Remarks on Hadley's quadrant' by Nevil Maskelyne

Reference number: L&P/5/306

Date: 1772

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as ' Remarks on the Hadley's quadrant, tending principally to remove the difficulties which have hitherto attended the use of the back-observation, and to obviate the errors that might arise from a want of parallelism in the two surfaces of the index-glass'

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L&P/5/306
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1772
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Nevil Maskelyne

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Nevil Maskelyne, Paper, 'Remarks on Hadley's quadrant' by Nevil Maskelyne, 1772, L&P/5/306, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_306/paper-remarks-on-hadleys-quadrant-by-nevil-maskelyne, accessed on 16 November 2025

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