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Paper, 'On the total solar eclipse of July 18th 1860 observed at Rivabellosa, near Miranda de Ebro in Spain' by Warren de la Rue

Reference number: PT/65/1

Date: 30 January 1862

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175 manuscript pages including 12 figures and 19 separate plates.

Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The Bakerian lecture.—On the total solar eclipse of July 18th, 1860, observed at Rivabellosa, near Miranda de Ebro, in Spain'.

Written by de la Rue at the Observatory in Crawford, Middlesex. Received by the Royal Society on 30 January 1862. Read 10 April 1862.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 12, 1863.

Reference number
PT/65/1
Earliest possible date
30 January 1862
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Ink on paper
Page extent
193 pages
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Manuscript

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Warren de la Rue

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Warren de la Rue, Paper, 'On the total solar eclipse of July 18th 1860 observed at Rivabellosa, near Miranda de Ebro in Spain' by Warren de la Rue, 30 January 1862, PT/65/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_65_1/paper-on-the-total-solar-eclipse-of-july-18th-1860-observed-at-rivabellosa-near-miranda-de-ebro-in-spain-by-warren-de-la-rue, accessed on 19 May 2025

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