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Paper, 'Further observations on Algol made at Prolitz near Dresden' by Johann Moritz Bruhl on behalf of Paltich

Reference number: L&P/8/54

Date: 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'

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L&P/8/54
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Johann Moritz Bruhl, Paper, 'Further observations on Algol made at Prolitz near Dresden' by Johann Moritz Bruhl on behalf of Paltich, 1783, L&P/8/54, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_54/paper-further-observations-on-algol-made-at-prolitz-near-dresden-by-johann-moritz-bruhl-on-behalf-of-paltich, accessed on 10 December 2024

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