Letter, from Johannes Hevelius to Francis Aston, dated at Danzig (Gdansk)
Reference number: EL/H2/63
Date: 29 December 1685

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Sends his observations of the lunar eclipse in 1685
Read to the Royal Society on 20 January 1686
- Reference number
- EL/H2/63
- Earliest possible date
- 29 December 1685
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- 3 pages
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- Manuscript
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Johannes Hevelius, Letter, from Johannes Hevelius to Francis Aston, dated at Danzig (Gdansk), 29 December 1685, EL/H2/63, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_h2_63/letter-from-johannes-hevelius-to-francis-aston-dated-at-danzig-gdansk, accessed on 10 February 2025
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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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Francis Aston
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Johannes Hevelius
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