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  <dc:title>Unpublished paper, 'New method proposed for measuring a ship's rate of sailing' by J [James] Burney</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Burney discusses a method of calculating a ship's rate of sailing using the quantity of pull on a ship's tow line over a set period of time. Includes one page of illustrations.

Subject: Physics / Navigation

Read to the Royal Society on 16 February 1809.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>[1809]</dc:date>
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