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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'On the civil tear of the Hindoos, and its divisions; with an account of three Hindoo almanacs belonging to Charles Wilkins, Esq'

Read 21 June 1792

Reference number
L&P/10/21
Earliest possible date
1792
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
28 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Henry Cavendish

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Henry Cavendish, Paper, 'On the civil year of the Hindoos [sic]' by Henry Cavendish, 1792, L&P/10/21, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_21/paper-on-the-civil-year-of-the-hindoos-sic-by-henry-cavendish, accessed on 13 September 2024

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