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Paper, 'An improved method of dividing astronomical circles and other instruments' by Capt Henry Kater

Reference number: PT/8/21

Date: 1814

Description

27 manuscript pages and two plates showing components of astronomical instruments and microscope arrangements.

Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An improved method of dividing astronomical circles and other instruments'.

Communicated by Thomas Young. Read 5 May 1814.

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 1, 1832.

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PT/8/21
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1814
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Ink on paper
Page extent
29 pages
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Manuscript

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Henry Kater

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Henry Kater, Paper, 'An improved method of dividing astronomical circles and other instruments' by Capt Henry Kater, 1814, PT/8/21, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_8_21/paper-an-improved-method-of-dividing-astronomical-circles-and-other-instruments-by-capt-henry-kater, accessed on 20 April 2025

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