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
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- 3 pages
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- Manuscript
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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 14 June 2026
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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 -
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Edmond Halley
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