Portsmouth
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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Letter from Peter Lecount to Dr Thomas Young, 1821-08-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/36: 93
Scope and Contents
Concerning a trial of his marine chair.
Dates:
1821-08-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from Peter Lecount to Dr Thomas Young, 1821-11-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/36: 94
Scope and Contents
Concerning trials of his method of observing the eclipse of Jupiter's satellites.
Dates:
1821-11-10
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from Thomas Briggs of HMS Queen Charlotte to [Dr Thomas Young?], 1819-01-26
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/37: 243-244
Scope and Contents
Concerning Robert Tucker's proposed method of finding longitude.
Dates:
1819-01-26
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives
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Papers of the Board of Longitude
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Correspondence regarding methods of establishing longitude by Jupiter's satellites, the planets and fixed stars
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Captain Robert Tucker on a method using the altitude and a true bearing of the pole star