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Author Shuckburgh-Evelyn, George Augustus William, Sir, 1751-1804.

Title An account of some endeavours to ascertain a standard of weight and measure / by Sir George Shuckburgh Evelyn ... read February 22, 1798.

Imprint [London : Sold by P. Elmsly, printer ..., 1798]
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 Othmer Rare Books  QC311 .R864 1798  LIB USE ONLY
Description 133-182 p., [3] folded leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 29 cm. (4to)
Note Caption title.
Detached from: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London, v. [88], Part 1, 1798.
"Art. VIII."
Bound with: Vince, Samuel. The Bakerian Lecture: Experiments upon the resistance of bodies moving in fluids. London: Royal Society of London, 1798: Pearson, George. Experiments and observations tending to show the composition and properties of urinary concretions. London: Royal Society of London, 1798: Herschel, William. On the discovery of four additional satellites of the Georgium Sidus: The retrograde motion of its old satellites announced; and the cause of their disappearance at certain distances from the planet explained. London: Royal Society of London, 1798: Rumford, Benjamin. An inquiry concerning the source of heat which is excited by friction. London: Royal Society of London, 1798: Abernethy, John. Observations on the Foramina Thebesii of the heart. London: Royal Society of London, 1798: Hatchett, Charles. An analysis of the earthy substance from New South Wales called Sydneia or Terra Australis. London: Royal Society of London, 1798: Barker, Thomas. Abstract of a register of the barometer, thermometer, and rain at Lyndon in Rutland, for the year 1796 London: Royal Society of London, 1798: Hellins, John. A new method of computing the value of a slowly converging series, of which all the terms are affirmative. Royal Society of London, 1798: Appendix. Meteorological journal kept at the apartments of the Royal Society, by Order of the President and Council
Subject(s) Weights and measures -- Early works to 1800.
Related Title Philosphical Transactions, of the Royal Society of London for the year MDCCXCVIII. Part 1.