Paper, 'On the length of the French metre estimated in parts of the English standard' by Capt Henry Kater
Reference number: PT/12/5
Date: 01 November 1817
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Subject: Mathematics / Measurement
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the length of the French mètre estimated in parts of the English standard'.
Written by Kater in London. Read 5 February 1818.
Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.
- Reference number
- PT/12/5
- Earliest possible date
- 01 November 1817
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- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 10 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1818
January 1817 - June 1818 Reference number: PT/12
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