Record

RefNoLBO/23/34
AltRefNoLBO/23/123
LevelFile
TitleCopy letter from Samuel Daniel, Yeovil, to Dr Lobb
Date11 August 1736
Description ' Inclosing Mr Browne's Scheme for the Longitude. '

Postscript:
'NB Lionel Browne having laid this Scheme before the Lords of the Admiralty in or about the first day of April 1732, was by them referred to Dr Halley : to whom he proposed it two or three days after. '

Read at the Royal Society on 232 December 1736
Extent2p
FormatMimeograph
AccessStatusOpen
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