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Comet witnessed on 17 March 1731
Read to the Royal Society on 26 October 1732

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RBO/18/1
Earliest possible date
1732
Page extent
1 page
Format
Manuscript

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'An account of a Comet in a Letter to Doctor Halley from Mr John Dove on board the Monmouth in Table Bay, 1732, RBO/18/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_18_1/an-account-of-a-comet-in-a-letter-to-doctor-halley-from-mr-john-dove-on-board-the-monmouth-in-table-bay, accessed on 18 February 2025

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