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Paper, 'On the use of the barometric thermometer for the determination of relative height' by James R [Robert] Christie

Reference number: PT/30/9

Date: 1845

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Subject: Geodesy / Scientific Instruments

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the use of the barometric thermometer for the determination relative heights'.

Communicated by S [Samuel] Hunter Christie. Received by the Royal Society on 28 November 1845. Read 29 January 1846.

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 5, 1851.

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PT/30/9
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1845
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24 pages
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James Robert Christie

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James Robert Christie, Paper, 'On the use of the barometric thermometer for the determination of relative height' by James R [Robert] Christie, 1845, PT/30/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_30_9/paper-on-the-use-of-the-barometric-thermometer-for-the-determination-of-relative-height-by-james-r-robert-christie, accessed on 11 September 2024

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