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Paper, 'New observations in further proof of the mountainous inequalities, rotation, atmosphere and twilight, of Venus' by Johann Jerome Schroeter

Reference number: L&P/10/104

Date: 1795

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163 pages in German and 79 pages of English translation. Contains four plates.

Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'New observations in further proof of the mountainous Inequalities, rotation, atmosphere, and twilight, of the planet Venus'

Read 19 February 1795

Reference number
L&P/10/104
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1795
Physical description
Ink on paper and four plates
Page extent
246 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'New observations in further proof of the mountainous inequalities, rotation, atmosphere and twilight, of Venus' by Johann Jerome Schroeter, 1795, L&P/10/104, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_104/paper-new-observations-in-further-proof-of-the-mountainous-inequalities-rotation-atmosphere-and-twilight-of-venus-by-johann-jerome-schroeter, accessed on 16 September 2024

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