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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

Concerning Hurricanes and their Prognosticks and Observations of my own Experience thereupon by Captain Langford

Reference number: MS/366/2/5

Date: 1677

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Notes on the final page state that the paper was read before the Royal Society on 6 December 1677 and state 'Journal Book 6 p19'. The notes state that another copy was read on 2 November 1698, entered in the R[egister] B[ook] [volume] 7 [page] 232 and was included in Phil[osophical] Tran[sactions] no 246.

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MS/366/2/5
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1677
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16 pages
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Concerning Hurricanes and their Prognosticks and Observations of my own Experience thereupon by Captain Langford, 1677, MS/366/2/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ms_366_2_5/concerning-hurricanes-and-their-prognosticks-and-observations-of-my-own-experience-thereupon-by-captain-langford, accessed on 26 January 2025

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    Science in the Making presents selected items from the 'Manuscripts General' series, notably astronomical observations, investigations of discrete topics, and indices and registers of papers read before the Royal Society.

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