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'A further Account of a new machine call'd the marine Surveyor design'd for the Mensuration of the Way of a Ship at Sea more correctly than by the Log at present in Use, or any other Method hitherto invented for that Purpose by M Henry de Saumarez of the Island of Guernsey, part of his Majesties ancient Dutchy of Normandy'

Reference number: RBO/13/73

Date: 1728

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Engraving of the ship with new machine from 'Philosophical Transactions' attached
Read to the Royal Society on 23 January 1728

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RBO/13/73
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1728
Page extent
14 pages
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Manuscript

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'A further Account of a new machine call'd the marine Surveyor design'd for the Mensuration of the Way of a Ship at Sea more correctly than by the Log at present in Use, or any other Method hitherto invented for that Purpose by M Henry de Saumarez of the Island of Guernsey, part of his Majesties ancient Dutchy of Normandy', 1728, RBO/13/73, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_13_73/a-further-account-of-a-new-machine-calld-the-marine-surveyor-designd-for-the-mensuration-of-the-way-of-a-ship-at-sea-more-correctly-than-by-the-log-at-present-in-use-or-any-other-method-hitherto-invented-for-that-purpose-by-m-henry-de-saumarez-of-the-island-of-guernsey-part-of-his-majesties-ancient-dutchy-of-normandy, accessed on 03 December 2024

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