| Description | Includes Notes by Edward Everard of the going of a chronometer (Arnold 68), table of old English and Roman weights, measures and coinage, scale of charges and general information concerning the River Kennet Navigation (1803), trade list of C Blunt, instrument maker, Covent Garden, scale table published by Ramsden, advertisement for publication by subscription of 'An exceeding Easy, New, and Expeditious Method of finding the longitude at sea or land' by Rev George Holden, 'Sinus en parties du rayon' Angles 0.8600 to 0.8700, 'Lettre de M van Marum ... contenant la description d'un Gazometer, construit d'une maniere differente de celui de M M Lavoisier et Meusnier', drawing and description of an apparatus for ascertaining the length of a seconds pendulum, description with drawing of Clay's improved canal lock, meteorological observations made at Nottingham (1808-1811). |