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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS: XIII DESCRIPTIONS OF A THERMOMETRICAL BAROMETER FOR MEASURING ALTITUDES Wollaston 1833 Near Fine
By Wollaston, Rev. Francis John Hyde
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London, Royal Society of London, not dated, c. 1833. 11 pp, illustration. Stapled extract article pages with corner folds. Near Fine overall.

Plate 7 shows the fully assembled instrument with details of components including the thermometer and a Vernier scale. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. 

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of a paper titled "Description of a thermometrical barometer for measuring altitudes" by Francis John Hyde Wollaston.

Read to the Royal Society on 6 March 1817. Printed in 1833.

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