Paper, 'Of a new micrometer and megameter' by Roger Joseph Boscovich
Reference number: L&P/6/258
Date: 1777
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4 pages in French and 6 pages in English.
Subject: Scientific instruments
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of a new micrometer and megameter'
Read 19 June 1777
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- L&P/6/258
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- 1777
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- 12 pages
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- Manuscript
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Roger Joseph Boscovich, Paper, 'Of a new micrometer and megameter' by Roger Joseph Boscovich, 1777, L&P/6/258, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_258/paper-of-a-new-micrometer-and-megameter-by-roger-joseph-boscovich, accessed on 18 January 2026
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Date: 31st December 1777
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1777.0036
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