| RefNo | PT/18/9 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, 'Observations made at the top of the Royal Observatory Greenwich on the rockets at Wrotham [Kent]' by John Frederick William Herschel |
| Date | July 1825 |
| Description | Part IV of paper by Herschel. The majority of the manuscript is found at PT/18/7, with observations made by L Mathieu and published within the paper found at PT/18/8.
Published in volume 116 of Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Account of a series of observations, made in the summer of the year 1825, for the purpose of determining the difference of meridians of the Royal Observatories of Greenwich and Paris; drawn up by J. F. W. Herschel, Esq. M. A. Sec. R. S'.
Read 12 January 1826. Communicated by the Board of Longitude.
Abstract of paper published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833. |
| Extent | 24p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0280 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1826.0012 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/18/7 |
| PT/18/8 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8238 | Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); mathematician and astronomer | 1792 - 1871 |