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'A Description of a Water Level to be fix'd to Davis's Quadrant whereby an Observation may be taken at Sea in thick and hazey Weather, without seeing the Horizon' by Charles Leigh

Reference number: RBO/21/1

Date: 1737

Description

For engraved figure of water level attached to a mercurial level see RBO/21/ page 367, a blank page noting the location of the figure is situated where page 5 would be.
Original figure in colour in CLP/8ii/73
Read to the Royal Society on 3 November 1737

Reference number
RBO/21/1
Earliest possible date
1737
Page extent
6 pages
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Manuscript

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'A Description of a Water Level to be fix'd to Davis's Quadrant whereby an Observation may be taken at Sea in thick and hazey Weather, without seeing the Horizon' by Charles Leigh, 1737, RBO/21/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_21_1/a-description-of-a-water-level-to-be-fixd-to-daviss-quadrant-whereby-an-observation-may-be-taken-at-sea-in-thick-and-hazey-weather-without-seeing-the-horizon-by-charles-leigh, accessed on 06 June 2026

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