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Paper, 'Observations in 1774 of the going of his astronomical clock' by Francis Wollaston

Reference number: L&P/6/102

Date: January 1775

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations made at Chislehurst, in Kent, in the year 1774'

Read 16 March 1775

Reference number
L&P/6/102
Earliest possible date
January 1775
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
6 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Francis Wollaston

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Francis Wollaston, Paper, 'Observations in 1774 of the going of his astronomical clock' by Francis Wollaston, January 1775, L&P/6/102, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_102/paper-observations-in-1774-of-the-going-of-his-astronomical-clock-by-francis-wollaston, accessed on 29 April 2025

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