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Paper, 'Of the transit of Venus as observed at Norton near Leicester' by William Ludlam

Reference number: L&P/5/121

Date: 1769

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations made at Leicester on the transit of Venus over the Sun, June 3, 1769'

Read 16 November 1769

Reference number
L&P/5/121
Earliest possible date
1769
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
6 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Of the transit of Venus as observed at Norton near Leicester' by William Ludlam, 1769, L&P/5/121, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_121/paper-of-the-transit-of-venus-as-observed-at-norton-near-leicester-by-william-ludlam, accessed on 13 November 2025

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