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Unpublished paper, 'An account of observations of the total eclipse of the Sun on the 21 December 1843' by J O E Ludlow

Reference number: AP/27/6

Date: 1844

Description

Ludlow shares details of a total solar eclipse observed from Sadras [India]. Includes one page of figures of the eclipse. He also shares observations he has recorded on magnetic dip and horizontal intensity.

Marked on front as 'October 30 1845 Archives S H C [Samuel Hunter Christie]'. Followed by a covering letter from James Cosmo Melvill.

Subject: Astronomy

Received 20 July 1844. Read 19 June 1845. Communicated by Melvill.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 5 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'An account of observations of the total eclipse of the Sun on the 21st of December 1843'.

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AP/27/6
Earliest possible date
1844
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
22 pages
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Manuscript

Creator name

J O E Ludlow

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J O E Ludlow, Unpublished paper, 'An account of observations of the total eclipse of the Sun on the 21 December 1843' by J O E Ludlow, 1844, AP/27/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_27_6/unpublished-paper-an-account-of-observations-of-the-total-eclipse-of-the-sun-on-the-21-december-1843-by-j-o-e-ludlow, accessed on 13 May 2025

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