Letter, including tables to accompany 'On the errors in longitude as determined by the chronometers at sea, arising from the action of the iron in the ships upon the chronometers' by George Coleman to George Fisher
Reference number: PT/14/19
Date: 05 June 1820
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Letter and tables of rates of chronometers published as part of 'On the errors in longitude as determined by the chronometers at sea, arising from the action of the iron in the ships upon the chronometers' by George Fisher.
Subject: Navigation
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of 'On the errors in longitude as determined by chronometers at sea, arising from the action of the iron in the ships upon the chronometers'.
Written by Coleman at 157 Leadenhall Street [London]. Read 8 June 1820.
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.
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George Coleman
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George Coleman, Letter, including tables to accompany 'On the errors in longitude as determined by the chronometers at sea, arising from the action of the iron in the ships upon the chronometers' by George Coleman to George Fisher, 05 June 1820, PT/14/19, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_14_19/letter-including-tables-to-accompany-on-the-errors-in-longitude-as-determined-by-the-chronometers-at-sea-arising-from-the-action-of-the-iron-in-the-ships-upon-the-chronometers-by-george-coleman-to-george-fisher, accessed on 14 December 2024
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1820
June 1819 - June 1820 Reference number: PT/14
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