Elizabeth Brown's Expedition to Trinidad to Observe the Total Solar Eclipse of 22 December, 1889

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Title

Elizabeth Brown's Expedition to Trinidad to Observe the Total Solar Eclipse of 22 December, 1889

Description

The Royal Astronomical Society intended to organise and two eclipse expeditions, spread across from French Guyana to the then Portuguese colony of Angola on this date to observe changes in the solar corona. However, Brown organised a third unofficial expedition to Trinidad with her relative Martha Louisa Jeffreys.

Source

tsee

Date

22/12/1889

Contributor

nc213@st-andrews.ac.uk

Type

Site

Identifier

27

Spatial Coverage

current,10.691803,-61.222503;

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Europeana Type

TEXT

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true

Organiser

Britain

Citation

“Elizabeth Brown's Expedition to Trinidad to Observe the Total Solar Eclipse of 22 December, 1889,” Virtual Museum, accessed March 14, 2025, https://eclipse.curious-sta.org/omeka/items/show/27.

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