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Paper, regarding observations of a comet seen at Madras [Chennai] and at Lisbon by M Sartorine and G R [Giles Richard] Vanbrugh

Reference number: CLP/8ii/62

Date: 1737

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Extracts of two letters. The first includes details of the comet at Madras [Chennai, India] extracted from a letter of Sartorine, a missionary at Madras, dated 9 February, to Mr Boyer at Petersbourgh translated from the German by Cromwell Mortimer. The second includes details of the comet at Lisbon seen by Vanbrugh on board the Burford Man of War, and communicated to the Royal Society by John Hadley.

Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A collection of observations communicated to the Royal Society, relating to the comet that appear'd in the months of January, February, and March 1736-7'

Reference number
CLP/8ii/62
Earliest possible date
1737
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Ink on paper
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1 page
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Paper, regarding observations of a comet seen at Madras [Chennai] and at Lisbon by M Sartorine and G R [Giles Richard] Vanbrugh, 1737, CLP/8ii/62, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_8ii_62/paper-regarding-observations-of-a-comet-seen-at-madras-chennai-and-at-lisbon-by-m-sartorine-and-g-r-giles-richard-vanbrugh, accessed on 05 October 2024

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