Record

RefNoL&P/6/247/2
LevelItem
TitlePlate, 'A chart showing the situation, distances and heights of some of the most remarkable mountains that are seeb from the borders of the Lake of Geneva' by George Augustus William Shuckburgh
Date1777
DescriptionContains charts and illustrations.

Subject: Mathematics/Geography

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations made in Savoy, in order to ascertain the height of mountains by means of the barometer; being an examination of Mr. De Luc's Rules, delivered in his Recherches sur les Modifications de l'atmosphere'

Read 8 May 1777
Extent1p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper and illustrations on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1777.0030
RelatedRecordL&P/6/247
L&P/6/247/1
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8358Shuckburgh-Evelyn; Sir; George Augustus William (1751 - 1804); mathematician1751 - 1804
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