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Paper, 'Of a remarkable Aurora borealis seen at Paris' by Charles Messier

Reference number: L&P/5/97

Date: 1769

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a remarkable aurora borealis, observed at the Observatory of the Marine at Paris'

Read 25 May 1769

Reference number
L&P/5/97
Earliest possible date
1769
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Charles Messier

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Charles Messier, Paper, 'Of a remarkable Aurora borealis seen at Paris' by Charles Messier, 1769, L&P/5/97, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_97/paper-of-a-remarkable-aurora-borealis-seen-at-paris-by-charles-messier, accessed on 12 December 2024

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