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RefNoPT/74/3/14
LevelItem
TitleChart, 'Solar correction of heights. Periodic parts. Liverpool' by [William Whewell]
Date[1836]
DescriptionPlate 17 showing a chart of the solar inequality of the heights of high water in Liverpool at specific hours of the the moon's transit throughout the months of the year. Two additional lines have been added in graphite at the bottom of the chart; these do not appear in the published plate. An ink inscription top right reads 'The black line to be dotted. The red ones full lines'. A faint pencil inscription in the middle of the chart reads 'This space to be the same size'. Inscribed verso with publication and plate details. Not signed. Watermarked 'J Rump 1831'. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Hydrography

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Researches on the tides.—fifth series. On the solar inequality and on the diurnal inequality of the tides at Liverpool' by William Whewell.

Received by the Royal Society on 23 February 1836. Read 3 March 1836.
Extent2p
FormatDiagram
PhysicalDescriptionInk and graphite on paper
Dimensions412x330mm
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1836.0014
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0232
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CodePersonNameDates
NA6578Whewell; William (1794 - 1866); college head and writer on the history and philosophy of science1794 - 1866
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