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RefNoCLP/8ii/46
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'An easy, simple and entire new method for finding a true meridian line' by Thomas Wright
Date1735
DescriptionWright shares a method which involves the use of two plumb lines, 'plac'd at a proper distance', in order to take two 'oriental' and 'occidental' measurements to produce 'two infallible lines forming an angle, given; which if you bisect, the middle line, will be an absolute meridian.'

Subject: Astronomy

Read to the Royal Society on 18 December 1735
LanguageEnglish
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedRecordRBO/19/38
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