1737 Magazine Discovery of Longitude Perpetual Motion

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Title: 1737 Magazine Discovery of Longitude Perpetual Motion

Additional Info: The February 1737 issue of The Gentlemen's Magazine, printed at London by Sylvanus Urban and E. Cave, 64 pages. First article on “Schemes for the Discovery of Longitude”, five pages. Much else of interest in this magazine including mathematical pieces and description of a comet observed at the end of the issue magazine not bound very good measures 5 by 8 inches..

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1737 Magazine Discovery of Longitude Perpetual Motion

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