RefNo | AP/17/3/1 |
Level | Item |
Title | Unpublished manuscript, 'Account of an extraordinary luminous presence in the heavens seen at Athboy in Ireland on the 21st March 1833' by Lord Darnley [Edward Bligh] |
Date | 28 March 1833 |
Description | Bligh, fifth Earl of Darnley, writes of a 'luminous presence', originally described as a meteor, observed at Clifton Lodge. Includes one diagram separate to the text. With accompanying letter from Darnley to J G [John George] Children.
Subject: Astronomy
Written by Bligh at Clifton Lodge, Athboy [Ireland].
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'An account of an extraordinary luminous appearance in the heavens, seen at athboy in Ireland, on the 21st of March, 1833'. |
Extent | 4p |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0106 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA255 | Bligh; Edward (1795 - 1835); 5th Earl of Darnley | 1795 - 1835 |