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Letter, from Edmond Halley to Johannes Weichard Valvasori [Valvasor]

Reference number: EL/H3/47

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Account of Lake Zircknitz in Krain [former Yugoslavia; now Lake Cerknica in Slovenia]

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EL/H3/47
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3 pages
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Manuscript
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Edmond Halley

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Edmond Halley, Letter, from Edmond Halley to Johannes Weichard Valvasori [Valvasor], EL/H3/47, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_h3_47/letter-from-edmond-halley-to-johannes-weichard-valvasori-valvasor, accessed on 24 April 2025

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