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Patrick Kelly (metrologist)

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A Practical Introduction to Spherics and Nautical Astronomy; being an attempt to simplify those ... Sciences. Containing ... the discovery of a projection for clearing the lunar distances in order to find the Longitude at Sea; with a new method of calculating this ...
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The Universal Cambist, and commercial instructor; being a general treatise on exchange, including the monies, coins, weights and measures of all trading nations and colonies: with an account of their banks and paper
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Oriental Metrology; comprising the monies, weights, and measures of the East Indies, and other trading places in Asia, reduced to the English standard. ... To which is added an Appendix on Oriental measures of
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Metrology; or, an exposition of weights and measures, chiefly those of Great Britain and France, comprising tables of comparison, and views of various standards, etc.
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He was for many years master of a successful private school, the Mercantile School, in Finsbury Square, London. He was appointed mathematical examiner at
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Useful tables, forming an appendix to the Journal of the Asiatic Society: part the first, Coins, weights, and measures of British India
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Elements of Book-keeping, both by single and double entry, comprising a system of merchants accounts, etc.
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A Dissertation on weights and measures, and the best means of revising them:, etc.
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2 vol. London, 1811. 4º. Reprinted 1821. Second edition 1831, reprinted 1835.
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London, 1801. 8º. Reprinted 1802, 1811, 1815, 1821.
300:. Vol. 30. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 244:. Vol. 30. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 8: 137:London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1817. 8º. 261:A Philosophical and Mathematical Dictionary 189:Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle 181: 179: 110:London, 1796. 8º. Reprinted 1813, 1822. 175: 224: 222: 89:, 5 April 1842. A portrait of him by 7: 339:19th-century British mathematicians 334:18th-century British mathematicians 14: 257:"English observatories (private)" 297:Dictionary of National Biography 276: 241:Dictionary of National Biography 1: 40:Weights and Measures Act 1824 38:of measurement through the 355: 324:Heads of schools in London 22:(1756–1842) was a British 85:and currency. He died at 255:Hutton, Charles (1815). 208:Prinsep, James (1840), 159:Exchanges, Vol 13, 1809 235:"Kelly, Patrick"  192:, vol. 9, Paris: 162:Standard, Vol 33, 1816 165:Weights, Vol 38, 1818 153:he wrote articles on: 60:University of Glasgow 196:, 1870, p. 1180 156:Coinage, Vol 8, 1807 186:"Kelly (Patrick)", 16:British metrologist 32:Oriental Metrology 150:Rees's Cyclopædia 144:London, 1832. 8º. 131:London, 1816. 8º. 28:Universal Cambist 346: 301: 280: 279: 265: 264: 252: 246: 245: 237: 226: 217: 215: 205: 199: 197: 183: 93:was engraved by 354: 353: 349: 348: 347: 345: 344: 343: 304: 303: 290:, ed. (1892). " 286: 277: 269: 268: 254: 253: 249: 228: 227: 220: 207: 206: 202: 194:Pierre Larousse 185: 184: 177: 172: 103: 95:Thomas Woolnoth 71:Nevil Maskelyne 52: 36:Imperial system 17: 12: 11: 5: 352: 350: 342: 341: 336: 331: 326: 321: 316: 306: 305: 292:Kelly, Patrick 274: 273: 267: 266: 247: 232:, ed. (1892). 218: 200: 174: 173: 171: 168: 167: 166: 163: 160: 157: 154: 145: 138: 132: 124: 117: 111: 102: 99: 64:Charles Hutton 51: 48: 15: 13: 10: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 351: 340: 337: 335: 332: 330: 327: 325: 322: 320: 317: 315: 312: 311: 309: 302: 299: 298: 293: 289: 284: 283:public domain 271: 270: 262: 258: 251: 248: 243: 242: 236: 231: 225: 223: 219: 213: 212: 204: 201: 195: 191: 190: 182: 180: 176: 169: 164: 161: 158: 155: 152: 151: 146: 143: 139: 136: 133: 130: 129: 125: 122: 118: 115: 112: 109: 105: 104: 100: 98: 96: 92: 88: 84: 80: 76: 75:John Herschel 72: 67: 65: 61: 57: 56:Trinity House 49: 47: 45: 41: 37: 33: 29: 25: 21: 20:Patrick Kelly 329:Metrologists 295: 275: 260: 250: 239: 210: 203: 187: 148: 140: 134: 126: 119: 113: 106: 101:Bibliography 79:James Hutton 68: 53: 31: 27: 19: 18: 319:1842 deaths 314:1756 births 288:Lee, Sidney 272:Attribution 230:Lee, Sidney 121:currencies. 91:Harry Ashby 69:Kelly knew 30:(1811) and 24:metrologist 308:Categories 170:References 46:. c. 74). 108:problem. 87:Brighton 44:5 Geo. 4 285::  83:coinage 142:time. 147:For 50:Life 294:". 310:: 259:. 238:. 221:^ 178:^ 97:. 77:, 73:, 62:. 216:. 198:. 42:(

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metrologist
Imperial system
Weights and Measures Act 1824
5 Geo. 4
Trinity House
University of Glasgow
Charles Hutton
Nevil Maskelyne
John Herschel
James Hutton
coinage
Brighton
Harry Ashby
Thomas Woolnoth
Metrology; or, an exposition of weights and measures, chiefly those of Great Britain and France, comprising tables of comparison, and views of various standards, etc.
Rees's Cyclopædia


Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle
Pierre Larousse
Useful tables, forming an appendix to the Journal of the Asiatic Society: part the first, Coins, weights, and measures of British India


Lee, Sidney
"Kelly, Patrick" 
Dictionary of National Biography
"English observatories (private)"
public domain
Lee, Sidney
Kelly, Patrick

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