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Paper, regarding observations of a halo in the skies over Rome by Thomas Dereham

Reference number: CLP/4ii/26

Date: 11 August 1732

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Dereham describes halos which appeared around the Sun from 8pm on 11 August 1732.

Subject: Meteorology

Read to the Royal Society on 18 January 1733

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Halo observations Romae anno MDCCXXXII. Die xi. Augusti à D. Did, de Revillas, Regali Societati communicavit Tho, Dereham Bart'

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CLP/4ii/26
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11 August 1732
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2 pages
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Thomas Dereham

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Thomas Dereham, Paper, regarding observations of a halo in the skies over Rome by Thomas Dereham, 11 August 1732, CLP/4ii/26, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_4ii_26/paper-regarding-observations-of-a-halo-in-the-skies-over-rome-by-thomas-dereham, accessed on 21 January 2025

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