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Paper, 'Tide researches. Fourteenth series. On the results of continued tide observations at several places on the British coasts' by W [William] Whewell

Reference number: PT/37/10

Date: 1849

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12 manuscript pages including one figure and one separate plate.

Subject: Hydrography

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Researches on the tides.—Fourteenth series. On the results of continued tide observations at several places on the British coasts'.

Written by Whewell at Trin Col [Trinity College], Cambridge. Received by the Royal Society on 24 October 1849. Read 31 January 1850.

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/37/10
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1849
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Ink on paper
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13 pages
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Manuscript

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William Whewell

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William Whewell, Paper, 'Tide researches. Fourteenth series. On the results of continued tide observations at several places on the British coasts' by W [William] Whewell, 1849, PT/37/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_37_10/paper-tide-researches-fourteenth-series-on-the-results-of-continued-tide-observations-at-several-places-on-the-british-coasts-by-w-william-whewell, accessed on 07 February 2025

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