WILLIAM LAMBERT, Washington, to THOMAS JEFFERSON, Monticello., 1822

Scope and content:

Presents table for use of University of Virginia, "A Table of Logarithms for reducing the Moon's equatorial horizontal parallax from a sphere to an oblate spheroid, admitting the ratio of the equatorial diameter to the polar axis of the Earth, to be as 320 to 319." [1947]

Physical description:
ALS. 1 pp. Endorsed by T. J. Enclosure: ADS. 3 pp.

Access and use

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