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Letters, 'The approaching transit of Venus (includes copy of letter from the Empress Catherine to Count Orlow from Moscow)' from James Short to Matthew Maty

Reference number: L&P/5/1

Date: 14 January 1768

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Contains a letter from Catherine the Great to Count Orlow, Director of the Acdemy of Sciences at Petersburg, dated 3 March 1767.

Subject: Astronomy

Read 14 January 1768.

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L&P/5/1
Earliest possible date
14 January 1768
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Ink on paper
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7 pages
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Manuscript

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James Short

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James Short, Letters, 'The approaching transit of Venus (includes copy of letter from the Empress Catherine to Count Orlow from Moscow)' from James Short to Matthew Maty, 14 January 1768, L&P/5/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_1/letters-the-approaching-transit-of-venus-includes-copy-of-letter-from-the-empress-catherine-to-count-orlow-from-moscow-from-james-short-to-matthew-maty, accessed on 13 February 2026

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