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  <dc:title>Diagram, 'Sketch shewing method for finding the distance EF between two spikes in the tops of two piles in Berry's Bay, Port Jackson [Australia]' by Richard Threlfall and John Frederick Adair</dc:title>
  <dc:description>A geometrical diagram illustrating Threlfall and Adair's method for measuring a distance.

Subject: Physics / Mathematics

A print of this diagram was published in volume 46 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society alongside the paper 'On the velocity of transmission through sea-water of disturbances of large amplitude caused by explosions'.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1889</dc:date>
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