Letter, from Bartholomew Candler to Edmond Halley, dated at Launceston off Crooked Island

Reference number: EL/C2/50

Date: 16 August 1722

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Candler sends his observations of the lunar eclipse on 17 June in Jamaica
Read to the Royal Society on 25 October 1722

Reference number: EL/C2/50
Earliest possible date: 16 August 1722
Page extent: 3 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Bartholomew Candler

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Bartholomew Candler, Letter, from Bartholomew Candler to Edmond Halley, dated at Launceston off Crooked Island, 16 August 1722, EL/C2/50, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_c2_50/letter-from-bartholomew-candler-to-edmond-halley-dated-at-launceston-off-crooked-island, accessed on 05 December 2024

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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
1613-1740 Reference number: EL
Early Letters C2
1675-1736 Reference number: EL/C2

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