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Paper, 'Congitata de cometis' by John Winthrop

Reference number: L&P/4/375

Date: 1767

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Cogitata de cometis.'

Read 19 March 1767

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L&P/4/375
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1767
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Ink on paper
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32 pages
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Manuscript

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John Winthrop

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John Winthrop, Paper, 'Congitata de cometis' by John Winthrop, 1767, L&P/4/375, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_375/paper-congitata-de-cometis-by-john-winthrop, accessed on 22 January 2025

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