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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

Reference number
L&P/2/461
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1753
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Ink on paper
Page extent
5 pages
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Manuscript

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James Short

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James Short, Paper, 'Of the last transit of Mercury over the Sun; account of Barro's memoir read to the Paris Academy' by James Short, 1753, L&P/2/461, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_461/paper-of-the-last-transit-of-mercury-over-the-sun-account-of-barros-memoir-read-to-the-paris-academy-by-james-short, accessed on 05 October 2024

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