Paper, 'On the laws of the rise and fall of the tide in the River Thames' by G B [George Biddell] Airy
Reference number: PT/26/1
Date: 25 June 1841
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Subject: Hydrography
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the laws of the rise and fall of the tide in the River Thames'.
Written by Airy at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. Received by the Royal Society on 3 July 1841. Read 25 November 1841.
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 4, 1843.
- Reference number
- PT/26/1
- Earliest possible date
- 25 June 1841
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- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 18 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1842
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