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Paper, 'Observatio cometae qui mense Maio anno 1759 apparuit [Observation of a comet that appeared in May in the year 1759]' by Pieter Gabry

Reference number: L&P/4/134

Date: 1763

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observatio cometae, qui mense Maio A. 1759 apparuit, facta Hagae Comit. à Petro Gabry, I.V.D. Societatis Reg. Scientiar. Socio, et Commercio Literar. cum Academ. Scientiar. Parisiensi et Reg. Societ. Gotting. juncto: Communicated by Mr. Emanuel Mendez da Costa, Librarian of the Royal Society'

Read 13 January 1763

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1763
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Peter Gabry, Paper, 'Observatio cometae qui mense Maio anno 1759 apparuit [Observation of a comet that appeared in May in the year 1759]' by Pieter Gabry, 1763, L&P/4/134, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_134/paper-observatio-cometae-qui-mense-maio-anno-1759-apparuit-observation-of-a-comet-that-appeared-in-may-in-the-year-1759-by-pieter-gabry, accessed on 19 September 2024

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