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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of an eclipse of the Moon, 22d November 1760, observed in Surrey-Street in the strand, London'

Read 11 December 1760

Reference number
L&P/4/30
Earliest possible date
1760
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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James Short

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James Short, Paper, 'Of the eclipse of the Moon of 22 Nov 1780' by James Short, 1760, L&P/4/30, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_30/paper-of-the-eclipse-of-the-moon-of-22-nov-1780-by-james-short, accessed on 04 November 2024

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