Letter, from Colin MacLaurin to Martin Folkes, dated at Edinburgh
Reference number: EL/M3/50
Date: 12 May 1737
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Account of the solar eclipse on 18 February 1737 witnessed in Scotland
Read to the Royal Society on 26 May 1737
- Reference number
- EL/M3/50
- Earliest possible date
- 12 May 1737
- Page extent
- 15 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Colin MacLaurin, Colin Maclaurin, Letter, from Colin MacLaurin to Martin Folkes, dated at Edinburgh, 12 May 1737, EL/M3/50, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_m3_50/letter-from-colin-maclaurin-to-martin-folkes-dated-at-edinburgh, accessed on 17 July 2025
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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
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Martin Folkes
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Colin MacLaurin
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