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Paper, 'Of the transit of Venus and solar eclipse, as observed at Kew' by John Bevis

Reference number: L&P/5/111

Date: 1769

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations of the late transit of Venus, and of the eclipse of the sun the next day; made at the house of Joshua Kirby, Esquire, at Kew'

Read 15 June 1769

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L&P/5/111
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1769
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Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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John Bevis

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John Bevis, Paper, 'Of the transit of Venus and solar eclipse, as observed at Kew' by John Bevis, 1769, L&P/5/111, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_111/paper-of-the-transit-of-venus-and-solar-eclipse-as-observed-at-kew-by-john-bevis, accessed on 16 February 2025

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