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Paper, 'An Account of a Meteor seen at Peckham December 10 1741' by Thomas Milner

Reference number: L&P/1/111

Date: 1742

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a meteor seen at Peckham, Dec. II. 1741'.

Read 24 June 1742

Reference number
L&P/1/111
Earliest possible date
1742
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'An Account of a Meteor seen at Peckham December 10 1741' by Thomas Milner, 1742, L&P/1/111, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_111/paper-an-account-of-a-meteor-seen-at-peckham-december-10-1741-by-thomas-milner, accessed on 13 December 2024

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