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Description

Contains five pages of observation tables.

Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account and abstract on the meteorological observation communicated to the Royal Society, for the years 1731, 1732, 1733, 1734 and 1735'

Read 9 December 1742

Reference number
L&P/1/141
Earliest possible date
1742
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
8 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Henry Beighton

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Henry Beighton, Paper, 'Meteorological observations 1731-5' by Henry Beighton and others, 1742, L&P/1/141, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_141/paper-meteorological-observations-1731-5-by-henry-beighton-and-others, accessed on 19 March 2025

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