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  <dc:title>Unpublished letter, regarding change of temperature during eclipses from Edwd [Edward] Mottley to the Secretary of the Royal Society</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Mottley reports his observations on temperature during lunar and solar eclipses in 1827. During a solar eclipse on 26 April and a lunar eclipse on 11 May, he found no change in temperature. During a solar eclipse on 20 October he reports that the temperature fell seven degrees. Likewise, during a lunar eclipse on 3 November, the temperature rose five degrees.

Subject: Meteorology

Written by Mottley in Ramsgate [Kent, England] and addressed to the Secretary of the Royal Society at Somerset House in London. Postmarked 16 and 17 December 1827.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>15 December 1827</dc:date>
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