Paper, 'Of the last transit of Mercury over the Sun; account of Barro's memoir read to the Paris Academy' by James Short
Reference number: L&P/2/461
Date: 1753
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Subject: Astronomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a memoir read at the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, by M. de Barros, a Portuguese gentleman, concerning certain phœnomena observed by him at Paris, in the last transit of Mercury over the Sun: by J. Short, A. M. F. R. S'
Read 13 December 1753
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- L&P/2/461
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- 1753
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- Ink on paper
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- 5 pages
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- Manuscript
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Date: 31st December 1753
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1753.0055
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