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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Prescott Joule
Date:
24 March 1843
Source of text:
Gladstone (1874), 49-50
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Enlarging on the luminous phenomena he has seen in the S.W. and giving some comments from a naval officer who had observed it.
Describes observing of comet that evening.
Covering letter to one by Edward Cooper regarding appearance and observations on new comet.
Reports where to observe the comet [Great Comet of 1843], its head having now become visible.