| RefNo | AP/19/12 |
| Previous numbers | AP.19.12 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'Formulae for computing the longitude at sea or on land' by William Dunlop |
| Date | 8 April 1835 |
| Description | Dunlop shares a trigonometric method for calculating longitude. Marked on back as 'archives'.
Subject: Mathematics / Geometry
Received 14 April 1835. Read 7 May 1835.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'Formulæ for computing the longitude at sea'. |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0202 |