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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Extract of a letter from Edward Pigott, Esq. to M. de Magellan, F.R.S; containing the discovery of a comet.'

Read 27 November 1783

Reference number
L&P/8/45
Earliest possible date
22 November 1783
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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John Hyacinth de Magellan

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John Hyacinth de Magellan, Letter, 'On the discovery of a comet' from Edward Pigott to John Hyacinth de Magellan, 22 November 1783, L&P/8/45, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_45/letter-on-the-discovery-of-a-comet-from-edward-pigott-to-john-hyacinth-de-magellan, accessed on 18 September 2024

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