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'...by a reflecting Telescope of twelve feet Focus armed with a micrometer, and by a reflecting Telescope of nine inches focal length'
Read to the Royal Society on 23 November 1738

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RBO/21/35
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1738
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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'An Eclipse of the Sun observed August the 4th 1738 by Mr George Graham and Mr Short at Mr Graham's House in Fleet Street London...', 1738, RBO/21/35, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_21_35/an-eclipse-of-the-sun-observed-august-the-4th-1738-by-mr-george-graham-and-mr-short-at-mr-grahams-house-in-fleet-street-london, accessed on 11 February 2026

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