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Letter, 'Of astronomical observations at Ewetzingen in 1767-8' from Christian Mayer to Charles Morton and James Douglas

Reference number: L&P/5/54

Date: 1768

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Astronomical observations made at Swetzingen, in the years 1767 and 1768; extracted from several letters written to Charles Morton, M.D. Sec. R. S. and one to the late Earl of Morton'

Read 28 December 1768

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L&P/5/54
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1768
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13 pages
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Christian Mayer

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Christian Mayer, Letter, 'Of astronomical observations at Ewetzingen in 1767-8' from Christian Mayer to Charles Morton and James Douglas, 1768, L&P/5/54, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_54/letter-of-astronomical-observations-at-ewetzingen-in-1767-8-from-christian-mayer-to-charles-morton-and-james-douglas, accessed on 10 December 2024

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