King's Lynn
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Letter from Ezekiel Walker to Dr Thomas Young, 1824-05-22
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/38: 456
Scope and Contents
Enclosing a paper for the consideration of the Board of Longitude, at [RGO 14/38: 457-457a].
Dates:
1824-05-22
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
/
Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives
/
Papers of the Board of Longitude
/
Correspondence regarding methods and instruments used to establish longitude and the use of chronometers at sea
/
Ezekiel Walker on the advantage of the use of several chronometers at sea
Item
Letter from Ezekiel Walker to Dr Thomas Young, 1824-08-10
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/38: 458
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
Six letters and a paper.
Dates:
1824-08-10
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives
/
Papers of the Board of Longitude
/
Correspondence regarding methods and instruments used to establish longitude and the use of chronometers at sea
/
Ezekiel Walker on the advantage of the use of several chronometers at sea
Item
Letter from Ezekiel Walker to Dr Thomas Young, 1825-01-17
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/38: 462
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
Six letters and a paper.
Dates:
1825-01-17
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
/
Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives
/
Papers of the Board of Longitude
/
Correspondence regarding methods and instruments used to establish longitude and the use of chronometers at sea
/
Ezekiel Walker on the advantage of the use of several chronometers at sea
Item
Letter from Ezekiel Walker to the Board of Longitude, 1783-07-07
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/38: 450-451
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
Six letters and a paper.
Dates:
1783-07-07
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
/
Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives
/
Papers of the Board of Longitude
/
Correspondence regarding methods and instruments used to establish longitude and the use of chronometers at sea
/
Ezekiel Walker on the advantage of the use of several chronometers at sea
Item
Letter from Ezekiel Walker to the Board of Longitude, 1783-12-17
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/38: 452-455
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
Six letters and a paper.
Dates:
1783-12-17
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
/
Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives
/
Papers of the Board of Longitude
/
Correspondence regarding methods and instruments used to establish longitude and the use of chronometers at sea
/
Ezekiel Walker on the advantage of the use of several chronometers at sea
Item
Letter from Ezekiel Walker to the Board of Longitude, 1824-08-10
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/38: 459-461
Scope and Contents
Defending his claim to be the original inventor of a method of finding longitude by the use of several chronometers at sea.
Dates:
1824-08-10
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives
/
Papers of the Board of Longitude
/
Correspondence regarding methods and instruments used to establish longitude and the use of chronometers at sea
/
Ezekiel Walker on the advantage of the use of several chronometers at sea
File
Notebook of Joseph Lindley, 1785 - 1786
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 4/327
Scope and Contents
The principal part of the notebook is a transcription of a pamphlet by T. Clapp, late Professor of Valo College, entitled 'Conjectures upon the Nature and Motion of Meteors &c', dated 1781, in which Clapp discusses the appearance, velocity, direction, noise, duration of visibility, frequency of appearance, apparent size and equivalent energy of the explosive concussion of meteors, together with the air resistance encountered by meteors and the conjecture that the flames from meteors are...
Dates:
1785 - 1786
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).
Item
Paper from Ezekiel Walker, 1824-05-22
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/38: 457-457a
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
Six letters and a paper.
Dates:
1824-05-22
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
/
Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives
/
Papers of the Board of Longitude
/
Correspondence regarding methods and instruments used to establish longitude and the use of chronometers at sea
/
Ezekiel Walker on the advantage of the use of several chronometers at sea