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'An Account of some surprizing Meteors appearing from time to time in the Province of Trivegiana (in the dominions of Venice) described and explained by Signor Ludovico Riva in his Miscellanies in Latin'

Reference number: RBO/19/5

Date: 1734

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Extracted from Signor Crivelli's Elements of Natural Philosophy printed at Venice 1732 by Philip Zollman
Read to the Royal Society on 5 December 1734

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RBO/19/5
Earliest possible date
1734
Page extent
18 pages
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Manuscript

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'An Account of some surprizing Meteors appearing from time to time in the Province of Trivegiana (in the dominions of Venice) described and explained by Signor Ludovico Riva in his Miscellanies in Latin', 1734, RBO/19/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_19_5/an-account-of-some-surprizing-meteors-appearing-from-time-to-time-in-the-province-of-trivegiana-in-the-dominions-of-venice-described-and-explained-by-signor-ludovico-riva-in-his-miscellanies-in-latin, accessed on 14 July 2025

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