Paper, 'Memoire sur la jonction de Douvres a Londres [Proposing a measurement for connecting Dover with London]' by Cesar Francois Cassini de Thury
Reference number: L&P/9/32
Date: 1787
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3 pages in French, with two pages in English.
Concerns the late Cesar Francois Cassini de Thury.
Subject: Astronomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Concerning the latitude and longitude of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich; with remarks on a memorial of the late M. Cassini de Thury'
Read 22 February 1787
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- L&P/9/32
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- 1787
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- Ink on paper
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- 5 pages
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- Manuscript
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Cesar Francois Cassini de Thury, Paper, 'Memoire sur la jonction de Douvres a Londres [Proposing a measurement for connecting Dover with London]' by Cesar Francois Cassini de Thury, 1787, L&P/9/32, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_32/paper-memoire-sur-la-jonction-de-douvres-a-londres-proposing-a-measurement-for-connecting-dover-with-london-by-cesar-francois-cassini-de-thury, accessed on 13 May 2026
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XVIII. Concerning the latitude and longitude of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich; with remarks on a memorial of the late M. Cassini de Thury External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1787
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1787.0018
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