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Paper, 'A new construction of the sea-quandrant' by John Hyacinth de Magellan

Reference number: L&P/5/323

Date: 1772

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Subject: Astronomy

Read 17 December 1772

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L&P/5/323
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1772
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10 pages
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John Hyacinth de Magellan

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John Hyacinth de Magellan, Paper, 'A new construction of the sea-quandrant' by John Hyacinth de Magellan, 1772, L&P/5/323, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_323/paper-a-new-construction-of-the-sea-quandrant-by-john-hyacinth-de-magellan, accessed on 10 October 2024

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