An attempt toward obtaining invariable measures of length, capacity, and weight, from the mensuration of time / [John Whitehurst].

  • Whitehurst, John, 1713-1788
Date:
1792?]
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Credit: An attempt toward obtaining invariable measures of length, capacity, and weight, from the mensuration of time / [John Whitehurst]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAPERS FROM THE PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. I. !Thermometrical Obfervations at Derby, by Mr. John TVhiteburjl, communicated by Charles Morton, M. iJ. Sec. R. S. [From vol. 57, page 265. Received April 9, 1767, and read May 14, 1767.] Dear Sir, J E experienced a much greater degree of cold at Derby, in the late froft, than perhaps was ever obferved in England ; and the quick transitions were no lefs remarkable. On Sunday the 18th -of laft month, at nine of the clock in the evening, my thermometer flood at 20. At half an hour after nine, nearly one degree below o. At feven the next morning, 30, external air. Derby, Feb. 15, 1767. I am, Sir, Your moft obedient Servant, John Whitehurst. . Ac*