Letter, 'Parhelia seen in Kent 19 December 1741' from Henry Miles to John Eames
Reference number: L&P/1/55
Date: 1741
Description
Contains small diagram [attached] and scored out passage.
Subject: Meteorology
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A representation of the parhelia seen in Kent, Dec. 19. 1741. Communicated in a letter from the Revd Mr. H. Miles, to John Eames, F. R. S. and an account of the same, as seen by Mrs. Tennison at Canterbury'.
Read 25 February 1741.
- Reference number
- L&P/1/55
- Earliest possible date
- 1741
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Henry Miles, Letter, 'Parhelia seen in Kent 19 December 1741' from Henry Miles to John Eames, 1741, L&P/1/55, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_55/letter-parhelia-seen-in-kent-19-december-1741-from-henry-miles-to-john-eames, accessed on 20 April 2025
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