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  <dc:title>Paper, 'A dissertation concerning the figure of the Earth. Part the second' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Desaguliers summarises work by Newton and Mairan and compares their experiments on this topic. Includes one page of geometrical figures including four circles and a U-shaped pipe.

Subject: Mathematics / Astronomy

Read to the Royal Society on 10 June 1725

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A dissertation concerning the figure of the Earth. Part the second.'</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1725</dc:date>
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