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Paper, 'Observations sur le passage de Mercure sur le disque du soleil [Observations on the passage of Mercury on the disk of the sun]' by Johann Wilhelm Wallot

Reference number: L&P/8/76

Date: 1784

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations du passage de Mercure sur le Disque du Soleil le 12 November, 1782, faites à l'Observatoire Royal de Paris, avec des réflexions sur un effet qui se fait sentir dans ces mêmes Observations semblable à celui d'une Réfraction dans l'Atmosphere de Mercure'

Read 29 April 1784

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L&P/8/76
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1784
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Ink on paper
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12 pages
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Paper, 'Observations sur le passage de Mercure sur le disque du soleil [Observations on the passage of Mercury on the disk of the sun]' by Johann Wilhelm Wallot, 1784, L&P/8/76, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_76/paper-observations-sur-le-passage-de-mercure-sur-le-disque-du-soleil-observations-on-the-passage-of-mercury-on-the-disk-of-the-sun-by-johann-wilhelm-wallot, accessed on 25 June 2025

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