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  <dc:title>Paper, 'Observations concerning the motion of chronometers' by W [William] Derham</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Derham writes about recent proposals for finding longitude using chronometers, providing his own observations of variations in pendulum clocks caused by weather and other influences.

Subject: Mechanics

Written by Derham in Upminster [London]. Read to the Royal Society on 28 October or 4 November 1714.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>4 August 1714</dc:date>
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