Extract of a letter, from Monsieur [Pierre Charle] le Monnier to George Graham
Reference number: EL/M3/58
Description
States that there will be no separate account about the Lapland expedition becuase it will published possibly in April.
That astronomers in Peru had begun celestial observations in March 1737.
A French translation is on the reverse.
- Reference number
- EL/M3/58
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Pierre Charles Le Monnier
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Pierre Charles Le Monnier, Pierre Charles Le Monnier, Extract of a letter, from Monsieur [Pierre Charle] le Monnier to George Graham, EL/M3/58, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_m3_58/extract-of-a-letter-from-monsieur-pierre-charle-le-monnier-to-george-graham, accessed on 13 December 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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Pierre Charles Le Monnier
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