'Reflections on M de l'Isles comparison of Paris with London' in a letter from Peter Davall of the Middle Temple to William Rutty
Reference number: RBO/13/82
Date: 1728
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Original letter dated 19 June 1728
Commenting on de L'lsle's article in 'Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris' for 1725 which gives his method for making a plan of Paris and comparing it with London and other cities and then explains his manner of drawing a true meridian line
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- RBO/13/82
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- 1728
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- 4 pages
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- Manuscript
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Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 13, copies of papers communicated 1727-1728
1727-1728 Reference number: RBO/13
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