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'Account of a new Protractor and Scale of equal parts' by William Gardiner

Reference number: RBO/19/67

Date: 1736

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Mr Sissons had lately invented a new protractor for drawing station lines of a survey
Read to the Royal Society on 27 May 1736

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RBO/19/67
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1736
Page extent
3 pages
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Manuscript

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'Account of a new Protractor and Scale of equal parts' by William Gardiner, 1736, RBO/19/67, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_19_67/account-of-a-new-protractor-and-scale-of-equal-parts-by-william-gardiner, accessed on 09 October 2026

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