Paper, 'Longitude of Dunkirk and Paris from Greenwich, deduced from the triangular measurement in 1787 and 1788, supposing the earth to be an ellipsoid' by Isaac Dalby
Reference number: L&P/9/202
Date: 1791
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Subject: Astronomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The longitudes of Dunkirk and Paris from Greenwich, deduced from the triangular measurement in 1787, 1788, supposing the earth to be an ellipsoid'
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Paper, 'Longitude of Dunkirk and Paris from Greenwich, deduced from the triangular measurement in 1787 and 1788, supposing the earth to be an ellipsoid' by Isaac Dalby, 1791, L&P/9/202, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_202/paper-longitude-of-dunkirk-and-paris-from-greenwich-deduced-from-the-triangular-measurement-in-1787-and-1788-supposing-the-earth-to-be-an-ellipsoid-by-isaac-dalby, accessed on 15 May 2026
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