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  <dc:title>'Calculation of the error of Mr Arnold's pocket Chronometer No. 36 in the months by the trial at the Royal Observatory in 1779 and 1780, by Nevil Maskelyne</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Maskelyne giving this information so it can be compared to the errors noted in Mr Mudge's time-keepers.

Thomas Mudge petitioned Parliament after his Father's instrument to determine Longitude was awarded £500.  Mudge believed it should have claimed the higher sums offered by the Board of Longitude.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>c.1793</dc:date>
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