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Paper, 'Of the phaenomena of the northern lights observed for some months past at Wittenberg [Germany] taken from his meteorological journal' by J F [Johann Friedrich] Weidler

Reference number: CLP/4ii/8

Date: 01 December 1731

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Weidler describes an aurora borealis observed in 1731.

Subject: Astronomy / Meteorology

Read to the Royal Society on 4 May 1732

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Descriptio luminum borealium vitemberga Anno CI ICC XXXII. conspectorum'

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CLP/4ii/8
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01 December 1731
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10 pages
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Manuscript

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Johann Friedrich Weidler, Paper, 'Of the phaenomena of the northern lights observed for some months past at Wittenberg [Germany] taken from his meteorological journal' by J F [Johann Friedrich] Weidler, 01 December 1731, CLP/4ii/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_4ii_8/paper-of-the-phaenomena-of-the-northern-lights-observed-for-some-months-past-at-wittenberg-germany-taken-from-his-meteorological-journal-by-j-f-johann-friedrich-weidler, accessed on 18 January 2025

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