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Paper, 'Astronomical passage of a lumen boreale [aurora borealis] observed near Bologna March 14 1727' by Eustachio Manfredi

Reference number: CLP/4i/80

Date: 16 May 1728

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Manfredi shares an observation on the aurora borealis in Bologna, Italy. Translated from the Italian by J G [John Caspar] Scheuchzer.

Subject: Astronomy / Meteorology

Read to the Royal Society on 16 May 1728

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Observationes astronomicæ habitæ in observatorio Bononiensi Anno 1727, a Cl. Eustachio Mansredi, R. S. S. Ex Epistola J. Baptistæ Carbone ad Isaacum de Sequeyra Samuda M. D. Coll. Med. Lic. & R. S. S.'

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CLP/4i/80
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16 May 1728
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Ink on paper
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8 pages
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Manuscript

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John Caspar Scheuchzer

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Eustachio Manfredi

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John Caspar Scheuchzer, Eustachio Manfredi, Paper, 'Astronomical passage of a lumen boreale [aurora borealis] observed near Bologna March 14 1727' by Eustachio Manfredi, 16 May 1728, CLP/4i/80, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_4i_80/paper-astronomical-passage-of-a-lumen-boreale-aurora-borealis-observed-near-bologna-march-14-1727-by-eustachio-manfredi, accessed on 09 November 2025

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