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Extract from the memoirs of Trevoux by [Nicolas de] Malezieu

Reference number: EL/M2/67

Date: May 1734

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Observations of the total eclipse of the sun with a nine-foot-long telescope made by Le Bas with a thick piece of paper so that the diameter of the sun could be divided into digits

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EL/M2/67
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May 1734
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Nicolas de Malezieu

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Nicolas de Malezieu, Extract from the memoirs of Trevoux by [Nicolas de] Malezieu, May 1734, EL/M2/67, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_m2_67/extract-from-the-memoirs-of-trevoux-by-nicolas-de-malezieu, accessed on 05 December 2025

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