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Thames

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Transactions with the Royal Society, 1836 - 1846

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/385
Scope and Contents Papers relating to transactions with the Royal Society, including correspondence with its members. There are papers by Airy on the correction of the compass on iron-built ships; the theoretical explanation of an apparent new polarity in light, with a supplement; the laws of the rise and fall of the tide in the River Thames; the laws of individual tides at Southampton and Ipswich; and the papers supplied by James Ivory to the 'Philosophical Transactions'. The material also includes a list of...
Dates: 1836 - 1846
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