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Paper, regarding a total lunar eclipse witnessed at Bologna [Italy] on 8 August 1729 by Eustachio Manfredi

Reference number: CLP/8ii/20

Date: 1729-1730

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Manfredi describes the lunar eclipse as observed from the public observatory of Bologna.

Subject: Astronomy

Read to the Royal Society on 22 January 1729 [1730]

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Duæ observationes eclipsis lunæ totalis nocte sequente diem 28 Julij 1729. S. V. Communicante Cl. Thomâ Dereham, Bart. & R. S. S'

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CLP/8ii/20
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1729-1730
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Eustachio Manfredi

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Eustachio Manfredi, Paper, regarding a total lunar eclipse witnessed at Bologna [Italy] on 8 August 1729 by Eustachio Manfredi, 1729-1730, CLP/8ii/20, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_8ii_20/paper-regarding-a-total-lunar-eclipse-witnessed-at-bologna-italy-on-8-august-1729-by-eustachio-manfredi, accessed on 05 October 2024

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