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Letter, 'Observations on Algol by a farmer of Prolitz near Dresden' from Johann Moritz Bruhl on behalf of Paltich to Joseph Banks

Reference number: L&P/8/42

Date: 07 November 1783

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations on the obscuration of the star Algol, by Palitch, a farmer. Communicated in a letter from the Count de Bruhl, F.R.S. to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. P.R.S'

Read 13 November 1783

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L&P/8/42
Earliest possible date
07 November 1783
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Ink on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'Observations on Algol by a farmer of Prolitz near Dresden' from Johann Moritz Bruhl on behalf of Paltich to Joseph Banks, 07 November 1783, L&P/8/42, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_42/letter-observations-on-algol-by-a-farmer-of-prolitz-near-dresden-from-johann-moritz-bruhl-on-behalf-of-paltich-to-joseph-banks, accessed on 10 October 2024

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