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Paper, 'Of a lunar eclipse' from Jacob de Castro-Sarmento

Reference number: L&P/3/41

Date: 1755

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Lunæ defectus Elbis à Doctore Joanne Mendesio Sachetto Barbosa, Philosophiæ & Medicinæ Professore, Regiæ Societatis Londinensis Socio, & Medicæ Academiæ Matritensis, Regalis Elbensis Nosocomii Medico, observatus die 27-28 Martii, Anno 1755. Communicated by J. De Castro Sarmento, M. D. F. R. S'

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L&P/3/41
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1755
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Jacob de Castro Sarmento

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Jacob de Castro Sarmento, Paper, 'Of a lunar eclipse' from Jacob de Castro-Sarmento, 1755, L&P/3/41, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_41/paper-of-a-lunar-eclipse-from-jacob-de-castro-sarmento, accessed on 19 January 2025

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