| Authorised form of name | Wargentin; Pehr Wilhelm (1717 - 1783) |
| Other forms of name | Peter |
| Dates | 1717 - 1783 |
| Place of birth | Sunne, Sweden |
| Date of birth | 11 September 1717 |
| Place of death | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Date of death | 13 December 1783 |
| Research field | Astronomy |
| Demography |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 12/07/1764 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Authority:
AltName from certificates
Notes:
Pogg gives date of birth as 22/09/1717. |
| Code | NA8350 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1764/20 | Wargentin, Pehr Wilhelm: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| L&P/5/286 | Letter, 'Titles of papers read before the Swedish Acadmey of Sciences between July 1770 and June 1771' from Peter Wargentin to John Ellicott | 5 March 1772 |
| L&P/5/33 | Letter, 'Of the winter in Stockholm' from Peter William Wargentin to Nevil Maskelyne | 23 February 1768 |
| EC/1764/36 | Wargentin, Pehr Wilhelm: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| L&P/2/104 | Letter, 'Of the variation of the magnetic needle' from Petrus Wargentin to Cromwell Mortimer | 1 May 1750 |
| L&P/4/351 | Letter, 'Of a new method of determining longitudes of places from observations of the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites' from Peter William Wargentin to Nevil Maskelyne | 6 July 1766 |
| L&P/6/221 | Letter, 'On the difference in longitude of Paris and Greenwich observatories' from Peter William Wargentin to Nevil Maskelyne | 1776 |