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271. Kings MS 270

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Kings MS 270
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AN ACCOUNT of the measurement of a base on Hounslow Heath carried on . . . under the direction of Major Edward Williams', R.A., in 1791; with four coloured plans. The preface and the Account itself are signed by the author. It is not identical with the paper communicated by the Duke of Richmond ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1792
Extent:
1 item

272. Kings MS 271

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Kings MS 271
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'AN ACCOUNT of the mode proposed to be followed in determining the relative situations of the Royal Observatories of Greenwich and Paris, containing likewise various investigations concerning the magnitude and figure of the Earth, 1787': read before the Royal Society, 22 Feb. 1787, by Maj.-Gen, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1787
Extent:
1 item

273. Kings MS 272

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Kings MS 272
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'AN ACCOUNT of the Trigonometrical operation for determining the difference of Longitude, &c., between the Royal Observatories of Greenwich and Paris': read before the Royal Society, 25 Feb. 1790, by Maj.- Gen. William Roy, F.R.S., with coloured plans and sections drawn by Thomas Vincent Rey...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Feb 1790
Extent:
1 item

274. Kings MS 273

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Kings MS 273
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'A COMPLETE COURSE of Navigation', comprising introductory rules, definitions, examples, &c., of Arithmetic (f. 2), Geometry (f. 17), Mensuration (f. 68), Trigonometry (f. 80), and Astronomy (f. 172). The actual treatise on Navigation (f. 214) is illustrated by six maps (the four continents,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

275. Kings MS 274

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Kings MS 274
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'Account of some observations tending to investigate the construction of the Heavens' : a paper on nebulae and star-clusters by William [afterwards Sir William] Herschel. Holograph, and signed (f. 8b) with the date 'Datchet, near Windsor, April, 1784'. At the end (ff. 9,10) are eighteen figures ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1784
Extent:
1 item

276. Kings MS 275

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Kings MS 275
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NEW EXPERIMENTS and observations on the nature and use of conductors, by Benjamin Wilson, F.R.S.', with dedication to the king. Dated at the end (f.20) 12 Nov. 1777. The paper was written for the Board of Ordnance after an explosion caused by lightning in a gunpowder magazine at Purfleet, and is...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Nov 1777
Extent:
1 item

277. Kings MS 276

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Kings MS 276
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'A DEMONSTRATION of the laws of Friction and the method of cancelling or reducing the same to the lowest degree of perception, with an explanation of the use and advantages thereof in the more obvious exercising of all sorts of Engines or the mechanical powers applied thereto; in particular that...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1734
Extent:
1 item

278. Kings MS 277

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Kings MS 277
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DESCRIPTIONS of three clocks in the Royal Palaces, viz.:- 1. 'A Description of a piece of Clockwork called by its Inventor and Maker a Chronological Automaton, or Self-moving Ephemeris, invented and made by Samuel Watson of Coventry, watchmaker.' The writer states that the clock was begun in 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 item

279. Kings MS 278

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Kings MS 278
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'MÉMOIRE sur un Hygromètre comparable; presenté là Societé royale de Londres par J[ean] A[ndré] De Luc, citoyen de Genève', &c., with one drawing (f. 15). A translation of the paper (without ff. 1-2 b) was read before the Royal Society, June 10, 1773, and printed with the title 'Account of a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

280. Kings MS 279

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Kings MS 279
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DESCRIPTIONS of two mathematical instruments, viz. :- 1. DRAWING 'of a portable instrument of universal use in the mensuration of angles, in celestial and terrestrial observations ' (a form of theodolite), to which are added ' a description and refferences', and (f. 4) ' the method of useing t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item