IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS/125
Held at: Royal Society
Title: Williams, Zacharaiah ([1668]-1755)
Date(s): 1753
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: Unknown
Name of creator(s): Williams | Zachariah [Zachary] | [1668]-1755 | experimental philosopher
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Administrative/Biographical history:
Born 1668 or 1673; educated in medicine, and served as a medical practitioner in south Wales; developed a method for ascertaining longitude using a theoretically derived table of the earth's magnetic variation (declination), in which the angle between geographic north and the direction indicated by a compass needle was calculated for different points of the globe; Williams also invented a device for desalinating sea water to make it drinkable; died, 1755.
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Papers relating to the proposal of Zachariah Williams for the revealing a secret of a machine invented by him, to be used at sea for making salt-water fresh and drinkable, together with the inventor's letter to the Lords of the Admiralty on the subject.
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Language/scripts of material: English
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Open
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No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.
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Paper, unbound.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Archivist's note: Source Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.s: Oxford DNB.
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.