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Letter, 'Of the same meteor as observed at Edgworthstown' from Richard Edgworth to Joseph Banks

Reference number: L&P/8/53

Date: 05 September 1783

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the meteor of the 18th August, 1783. In a letter from Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Esq. F.R.S. to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. P.R.S'

Read 15 January 1784

Reference number
L&P/8/53
Earliest possible date
05 September 1783
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Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of the same meteor as observed at Edgworthstown' from Richard Edgworth to Joseph Banks, 05 September 1783, L&P/8/53, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_53/letter-of-the-same-meteor-as-observed-at-edgworthstown-from-richard-edgworth-to-joseph-banks, accessed on 24 April 2025

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