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Title continues '...with an attempt to assign a reason of the Said winds'. Read to the Royal Society on 26 May 1686.

Subject: Meteorology

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CLP/21/7
Earliest possible date
1686
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Ink on paper
Page extent
17 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Edmond Halley

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Edmond Halley, Paper, 'An historical account of trade winds and monsoons observable in the seas between and near the Tropicks ...' by Edmond Halley, 1686, CLP/21/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_21_7/paper-an-historical-account-of-trade-winds-and-monsoons-observable-in-the-seas-between-and-near-the-tropicks-by-edmond-halley, accessed on 15 April 2026

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    Dates: 1592 - 1741

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