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Translation of a letter, from Johann Weidler to Cromwell Mortimer, dated at Wittemberg

Reference number: EL/W4/14

Date: 01 January 1736

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Original was dated 28 October 1736

Glad that the Royal Society approved of his report on the parhelia (mock suns) and he sends some engravings of them, as well as some observations of the lunar eclipse in September; in a postscript details are given about an 'aurora borealis' witnessed on 27 October 1736

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EL/W4/14
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01 January 1736
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2 pages
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Manuscript
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Johann Friedrich Weidler

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Johann Friedrich Weidler, Johann Friedrich Weidler, Translation of a letter, from Johann Weidler to Cromwell Mortimer, dated at Wittemberg, 01 January 1736, EL/W4/14, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_w4_14/translation-of-a-letter-from-johann-weidler-to-cromwell-mortimer-dated-at-wittemberg, accessed on 12 August 2026

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