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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as Observations of the transit of Mercury, May 4, 1786, at Dresden. By M. Köhler, Inspector of the Mathematical Repository of the Elector of Saxony; communicated by the Count de Brühl, F. R. S'

Read 21 December 1786

Reference number
L&P/9/17
Earliest possible date
1786
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Observations of the transit of Mercury at Dresden, 4 May 1786; by M Kohler, 1786, L&P/9/17, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_17/paper-observations-of-the-transit-of-mercury-at-dresden-4-may-1786-by-m-kohler, accessed on 24 May 2025

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