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.
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- PT/73/7/12
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- 1819
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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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On the specific gravity and temperatures of sea-waters, in different parts of the ocean, and in particular seas; with some account of their saline contents External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1833
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0106
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XII. 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 External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1819
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1819.0014
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Paper, '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 Alex [Alexander] Marcet
Creator: Alexander John Gaspard Marcet Reference number: PT/13/14
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1807-1833
1807-1833 Reference number: PT/73 -
Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 109
1818-1819 Reference number: PT/73/7
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William Edward Parry
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