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Letter, 'Concerning the longitude of Cambridge, Massachusetts' from Joseph Willard to Nevil Maskelyne

Reference number: L&P/7/218

Date: 16 February 1781

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from Joseph Willard to the Rev. Dr. Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal, concerning the longitude of Cambridge in New England'

Read 5 July 1781

Reference number
L&P/7/218
Earliest possible date
16 February 1781
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Ink on paper
Page extent
7 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'Concerning the longitude of Cambridge, Massachusetts' from Joseph Willard to Nevil Maskelyne, 16 February 1781, L&P/7/218, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_218/letter-concerning-the-longitude-of-cambridge-massachusetts-from-joseph-willard-to-nevil-maskelyne, accessed on 25 January 2026

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