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Paper, regarding unusual rainfall from an extract of a letter from Robert Vaux to Mr Henry Milton

Reference number: CLP/4i/49

Date: 15 November 1695

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Vaux describes showers of greasy, butter-like matter in Limerick and Tipperary [Ireland].

Subject: Meteorology

Read to the Royal Society on 4 December 1695

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CLP/4i/49
Earliest possible date
15 November 1695
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Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, regarding unusual rainfall from an extract of a letter from Robert Vaux to Mr Henry Milton, 15 November 1695, CLP/4i/49, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_4i_49/paper-regarding-unusual-rainfall-from-an-extract-of-a-letter-from-robert-vaux-to-mr-henry-milton, accessed on 10 November 2024

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