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Paper, 'Of the transit of Venus' by Thomas Hornsby

Reference number: L&P/5/108

Date: 1769

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Subejct: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An Account of the observations of the transit of Venus and of the eclipse of the sun, made at Shirburn Castle and at Oxford'

Read 15 June 1769

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L&P/5/108
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1769
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Ink on paper
Page extent
6 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Hornsby

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Thomas Hornsby, Paper, 'Of the transit of Venus' by Thomas Hornsby, 1769, L&P/5/108, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_108/paper-of-the-transit-of-venus-by-thomas-hornsby, accessed on 16 September 2024

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