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Letter, from Adrian Auzout to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Paris

Reference number: EL/A/20

Date: 29 December 1667

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Concerning designs of instruments for accurately measuring the altitude of the sun and moon; wishing to know details of the eclipse of the moon in England; Auzout gives details of his observations of the eclipse

Subject: Astronomy
Read to Royal Society on 9 January 1668

Reference number
EL/A/20
Earliest possible date
29 December 1667
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Adrian Auzout

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Adrian Auzout, Letter, from Adrian Auzout to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Paris, 29 December 1667, EL/A/20, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_a_20/letter-from-adrian-auzout-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-paris, accessed on 04 November 2024

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