Memoirs / John Rennie, 1782-1783
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John Hollins, communicated to the Royal Society by the Rev. Nevil Maskelyne; description and use of a portable wind gage by Dr. James Lind; an investigation into the principal of progression of rotary motion; centering bridges; and new fundamental experiments upon the collision of bodies by Mr. Smeaton. With various statistical writings"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "With nine folded leaves of plates; three of the plates are labeled in detail in French"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Also available online"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Also available online."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Additional manuscript material by John Rennie can be found in the library of the Institute of Civil Engineers (U.K.)"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Collected by Bern Dibner for his Burndy Library in Norwalk, Connecticut, founded in 1941. 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