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THE TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE OF MAY 22, 1724.—In the Illustrated London News of Saturday last are some quaint extracts from the newspapers of the time, relating to this eclipse, the last that was total in England. It may not be without interest to examine the general circumstances of this phenomenon, which we are now enabled to do with much precision, by taking advantage of the data furnished in Prof. Newcomb's recently published “Researches on the Motion of the Moon.” The elements are as follow:—
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 20, 97 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020097a0
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