Open AccessII. Observations on the obscuration of the star Algol, by Palitch, a farmer. Communicated in a letter from the Count de Bruhl, F.R.S. to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. P.R.S
Publication year - 1784
Publication title -
philosophical transactions of the royal society of london
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9223
pISSN - 0261-0523
DOI - 10.1098/rstl.1784.0002
Subject(s) - honour , yesterday , residence , permission , history , art , genealogy , sociology , law , astronomy , demography , political science , physics , archaeology
Sir, I avail myself of the permission you gave me, when I had the honour to meet you yesterday in the Drawing-room, by sending you the following short account, which was transmitted to me by Mr. Canzler, one of the Elector's Librarians, dated Dresden the 10th of October. Palitch, a farmer of Prolitz, a village in the neighbourhood of that Residence, saw the greatest observation of Algol on the 12th September, at eight o'clock, P.M.