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Paper, 'A lunar rainbow at the Hague' by Pieter Gabry

Reference number: L&P/3/210

Date: 30 September 1756

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Subject: Astronomy

Read 17 January 1757

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L&P/3/210
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30 September 1756
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Ink on paper
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2 pages
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Peter Gabry

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Peter Gabry, Paper, 'A lunar rainbow at the Hague' by Pieter Gabry, 30 September 1756, L&P/3/210, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_210/paper-a-lunar-rainbow-at-the-hague-by-pieter-gabry, accessed on 15 January 2025

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