'Description of an Instrument for shewing the Latitude at Sea without the Horizon' by Stephen Planck [Plank]
Reference number: RBO/18/41
Date: 1733
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Read to the Royal Society on 26 April 1733
- Reference number
- RBO/18/41
- Earliest possible date
- 1733
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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'Description of an Instrument for shewing the Latitude at Sea without the Horizon' by Stephen Planck [Plank], 1733, RBO/18/41, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_18_41/description-of-an-instrument-for-shewing-the-latitude-at-sea-without-the-horizon-by-stephen-planck-plank, accessed on 08 October 2026
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Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 18, copies of papers communicated 1732-1734
1732-1734 Reference number: RBO/18
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