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Paper, 'Remarks on Maj-Gen Roy's account of the trigonometrical operation' by Isaac Dalby

Reference number: L&P/9/179

Date: 1790

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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the trigonometrical operation, whereby the distance between the meridians of the Royal Observatories of Greenwich and Paris has been determined' p.593

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L&P/9/179
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1790
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25 pages
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Paper, 'Remarks on Maj-Gen Roy's account of the trigonometrical operation' by Isaac Dalby, 1790, L&P/9/179, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_179/paper-remarks-on-maj-gen-roys-account-of-the-trigonometrical-operation-by-isaac-dalby, accessed on 24 March 2025

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