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Poleni presents brief observations of the Sun made on 14 July 1730. He writes: 'Oriente sole, nubes tenues finitorem quan cingebant: quibus deinde evanescentibus, aer tantillum nebulosus fuit, ut maculae solares haud distincte apparerent.' [To the east of the Sun, thin clouds encircled the horizon; as they then disappeared, the air was slightly hazy, so that the sunspots did not appear distinctly.]

Subject: Astronomy

Read to the Royal Society on 29 October 1730

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Observatio ejusdem defectûs solis habita Patavii'

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CLP/8ii/28
Earliest possible date
29 October 1730
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Ink on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, regarding sunspots by G [Giovanni] Poleni, 29 October 1730, CLP/8ii/28, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_8ii_28/paper-regarding-sunspots-by-g-giovanni-poleni, accessed on 13 October 2024

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