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  <dc:title>Paper, 'Report of the committee of the members of the R[oyal] Society in Ireland appointed to examine the structure and sayling of Sir William Petty's new shipp', dated at Dublin</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Those on the committee from the Society were Lord Massareen, Anthony Morgan, Peter Pett, Robert Southwell, William Petty.
Conference discussed the double-bottomed ship (catamaran)  - list of objections to its construction are given with explanations
Read to the Royal Society on 28 January 1662</dc:description>
  <dc:date>5 January 1662</dc:date>
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