Gabriel Stokes

Sir Gabriel Stokes (7 July 184922 October 1920) was an Irish civil servant and colonial administrator of the Indian Civil Service. He acted as the Governor of Madras between February–March 1906. Provided by Wikipedia
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    A scheme for effectually supplying every part of Dublin with pipe-water : without any charge of water-engines, or any water-forcers, by a close adherence only to the natural laws of gravitation, and the principles, rules, and experiments of hydrostaticks.
    by Stokes, Gabriel
    Published 1735
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    The description and uses of the universal æquinoctial double-ring dial, which serves to find the latitude, hour of the day, sun's altitude, declination, and place in the ecliptick, time of his rising and setting, length of the day and night, and also a most accurate and admirable method for adjusting the latitude in all places, with a scheme curiously engraven, representing the position of the dial in all it's uses; together with so much of the projection of the sphere in the plain of the equator, as is necessary in the question for finding the latitude : Very useful for all travellers and gentlemen, to examine and adjust their pendulum, clocks or watches. Wherunto is added, a well collected table of the latitude of the most eminent place in Europe. Also, a new calculated and correct table of equation. By Gabriel Stokes, mathematical instrument-marker in Essex-Street, Dublin.
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    A scheme for effectually supplying every part of the city of Dublin with pipe-water : without any charge of water-engines, ... by a close adherence only to the natural laws of gravitation, ...
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    Love of our country, distinguished from false pretences : a sermon, preached in the cathedral of Waterford, January 15th, 1797, being the first Sunday after it was ascertained that the invading fleet had entirely quit the coast. By the Rev. Gabriel Stokes, ...
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    A sermon preached in the parish-church of Marafelt : in the Diocese of Armagh, June, 1769, in support of a charitable fund, for lending to the poor of said parish. By Gabriel Stokes, ... To which is annexed, an account of the rise, progress, present state, and advantages of this scheme.
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    Essay on the nature and import of subscription to the thirty-nine articles in Ireland : By Gabriel Stokes, D.D. some time Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, chancellor of the Cathedral of Waterford, and chaplain to His Grace the Lord Primate.
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