Paper, 'An account of the re-measurement of the cube, cylinder, and sphere used by the late Sir Geo [George] Shuckburgh Evelyn in his enquiries respecting a standard of weights and measures' by Capt H [Henry] Kater
Reference number: PT/15/26
Date: 01 March 1821
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Subject: Metrology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of the re-measurement of the cube, cylinder, and sphere, used by the late Sir George Shuckburgh Evelyn, in his enquiries respecting a standard of weights and measures'.
Written by Kater in London. Read 7 June 1821.
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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- PT/15/26
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- 01 March 1821
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Henry Kater, Paper, 'An account of the re-measurement of the cube, cylinder, and sphere used by the late Sir Geo [George] Shuckburgh Evelyn in his enquiries respecting a standard of weights and measures' by Capt H [Henry] Kater, 01 March 1821, PT/15/26, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_15_26/paper-an-account-of-the-re-measurement-of-the-cube-cylinder-and-sphere-used-by-the-late-sir-geo-george-shuckburgh-evelyn-in-his-enquiries-respecting-a-standard-of-weights-and-measures-by-capt-h-henry-kater, accessed on 23 June 2025
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Date: 31st December 1833
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0158
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1821
January 1819 - July 1821 Reference number: PT/15
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