Paper, 'On the Indian arc of meridian' by [John Henry Pratt]
Reference number: PT/62/4
Date: 19 July 1860
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57 manuscript pages and one plate showing a diagram of the curvature of the Indian arc.
Subject: Geodesy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the Indian arc of meridian'.
Written by Pratt in Calcutta [Kolkata, West Bengal, India]. Communicated by Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes. Received by the Royal Society on 3 September 1860. Read 22 November 1860.
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 10, 1860.
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- PT/62/4
- Earliest possible date
- 19 July 1860
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- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 58 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1861
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