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Letter, 'Of certain Greenwich and Cape of Good Hope astronomical observations' from Joseph Nicholas de L'Isle to James Bradley

Reference number: L&P/2/480

Date: 30 November 1752

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8 pages in French, with 13 pages of English translation.

Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from Monsieur de L'lsle, of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, to the Reverend James Bradley, D. D. Astronomer Royal, and Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford'

Read 21 February 1754

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L&P/2/480
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30 November 1752
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Joseph Nicholas De Lisle

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Joseph Nicholas De Lisle, Letter, 'Of certain Greenwich and Cape of Good Hope astronomical observations' from Joseph Nicholas de L'Isle to James Bradley, 30 November 1752, L&P/2/480, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_480/letter-of-certain-greenwich-and-cape-of-good-hope-astronomical-observations-from-joseph-nicholas-de-lisle-to-james-bradley, accessed on 09 December 2025

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