RefNo | PT/53/11 |
Level | File |
Title | Paper, 'On the figures, dimensions and mean specific gravity of the earth as derived from the ordnance survey of Great Britain and Ireland' by Lt Colonel [Henry] James |
Date | [1856] |
Description | 33 manuscript pages and one plate containing a world map showing arcs of meridians.
Subject: Geodesy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the figure, dimensions, and mean specific gravity of the earth, as derived from the Ordnance trigonometrical survey of Great Britain and Ireland'.
Received by the Royal Society on 30 April 1856. Read 8 May 1856.
Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 8, 1857. |
Extent | 34p |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1856.0034 |
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1856.0002 |
RelatedRecord | RR/3/153 |
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Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA2879 | James; Sir; Henry (1803 - 1877); surveyor | 1803 - 1877 |