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Paper, 'Of the comet' by Nicholas Munckley

Reference number: L&P/3/407

Date: 09 January 1760

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the same comet ; by Nicolas Munckley, of Lincoln's-Inn, Esq;'

Read 17 January 1760

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L&P/3/407
Earliest possible date
09 January 1760
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Ink on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Nicholas Munckley

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Nicholas Munckley, Paper, 'Of the comet' by Nicholas Munckley, 09 January 1760, L&P/3/407, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_407/paper-of-the-comet-by-nicholas-munckley, accessed on 06 October 2026

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