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Paper, 'The description of an aurora borealis mention'd in the foregoing letter' by unknown author

Reference number: CLP/4i/78

Date: 05 January 1727

Description

The author describes a meteor observed in Liverpool [England] on 5 January 1727, writing that 'about seven ’o clock at night I was told that the meteor called by our Sailors, 'Merry Dancers', was visible, and very bright'. Includes an engraved figure of a light in the sky.

Subject: Astronomy

Read to the Royal Society on 16 November 1727

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The description of an aurora borealis mention'd in the foregoing letter.'

Reference number
CLP/4i/78
Earliest possible date
05 January 1727
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'The description of an aurora borealis mention'd in the foregoing letter' by unknown author, 05 January 1727, CLP/4i/78, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_4i_78/paper-the-description-of-an-aurora-borealis-mentiond-in-the-foregoing-letter-by-unknown-author, accessed on 24 May 2025

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