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Paper, 'Historiola visionis cujusdam memorabilis observatae à D Andrea Spole' [A story of a memorable vision observed by D Andrea Spole] by Andrea Spole

Reference number: CLP/4i/38

Date: 1681

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Paper by Andrea Spole, Professor of Astronomy at Uppsala [Sweden], excerpted from a letter dated 1681 about visiting a lake in Sweden.

Subject: Hydrography

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Historiola visionis cujusdam memorabilis observatæ à D. Andrea Spole Astronomi & Professore in Academia Upsaliensi excerpta ex ejusdem Epistola quadam, Ann. 1681. d. 21. Julii scripta.'

Read to the Royal Society on 7 December 1681

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CLP/4i/38
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1681
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'Historiola visionis cujusdam memorabilis observatae à D Andrea Spole' [A story of a memorable vision observed by D Andrea Spole] by Andrea Spole, 1681, CLP/4i/38, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_4i_38/paper-historiola-visionis-cujusdam-memorabilis-observatae-à-d-andrea-spole-a-story-of-a-memorable-vision-observed-by-d-andrea-spole-by-andrea-spole, accessed on 16 June 2025

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