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Drawings, improved machine for sampling seawater at depth by [TP and LFM]

Reference number: PT/73/7/12

Date: 1819

Description

Plate 12 showing an instrument for sampling seawater at depth made by John Newman of Lisle Street, London and used by William Edward Parry's 1819-1820 expedition to Baffin Bay [between Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada and Greenland] aboard HMS Hecla. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed, but the plate bears two sets of initials. Royal Society stamp verso.

Subject: Geodesy / Hydrography

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the specific gravity, and temperature of sea waters, in different parts of the ocean, and in particular seas; with some account of their saline contents' by Alexander John Gaspard Marcet.

Read to the Royal Society on 20 May 1819.

Reference number
PT/73/7/12
Earliest possible date
1819
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Graphite on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Drawing

Creator name

Alexander John Gaspard Marcet

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Alexander John Gaspard Marcet, Drawings, improved machine for sampling seawater at depth by [TP and LFM], 1819, PT/73/7/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_7_12/drawings-improved-machine-for-sampling-seawater-at-depth-by-tp-and-lfm, accessed on 09 October 2024

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