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Read to the Royal Society on 4 May 1738

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RBO/21/25
Earliest possible date
1738
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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'A contrivance to make the poles of the diurnal Motion in a celestial Globe pass round the Poles of the Ecliptic Invented by John Senex', 1738, RBO/21/25, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_21_25/a-contrivance-to-make-the-poles-of-the-diurnal-motion-in-a-celestial-globe-pass-round-the-poles-of-the-ecliptic-invented-by-john-senex, accessed on 19 June 2025

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