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Contains one plate.

Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of a luminous appearance in the heavens'

Read 5 April 1781

Reference number
L&P/7/194
Earliest possible date
28 March 1781
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Tiberius Cavallo

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Tiberius Cavallo, Paper, 'Of a luminous appearance in the heavens' by Tiberius Cavallo, 28 March 1781, L&P/7/194, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_194/paper-of-a-luminous-appearance-in-the-heavens-by-tiberius-cavallo, accessed on 21 January 2025

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