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  <dc:title>Unpublished paper, 'An inquiry into the supposed alteration of the axis of this earth' by Capt Joseph Mead</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Mead questions Cassini's assertion that there is an alteration to the axis of the earth based on observations of the meridian line in Bologna [Italy], arguing that it would significantly change latitudes of places far away if this were the case. Includes one page of figures.

Subject: Geodesy

Addressed to J [James] West. Written by Mead in Wilsbourne [Wellesbourne], Warwickshire [England].</dc:description>
  <dc:date>5 August 1771</dc:date>
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