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Paper, 'Concerning the latitude and longitude of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich; with remarks on the memoire by Cassini de Thury' by Nevil Maskelyne

Reference number: L&P/9/33

Date: 1787

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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/9/33
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1787
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27 pages
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Nevil Maskelyne

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Nevil Maskelyne, Paper, 'Concerning the latitude and longitude of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich; with remarks on the memoire by Cassini de Thury' by Nevil Maskelyne, 1787, L&P/9/33, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_33/paper-concerning-the-latitude-and-longitude-of-the-royal-observatory-at-greenwich-with-remarks-on-the-memoire-by-cassini-de-thury-by-nevil-maskelyne, accessed on 18 March 2025

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