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Reference numberAP/7/34
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished letter, regarding Charles Wildbore's paper from [Nevil] Maskelyne to Sir Joseph Banks
Date11 June 1790
DescriptionLetter from Maskelyne regarding Wildbore's expanded paper on spherical motion (see AP/7/16 for original version of manuscript), providing his final comments on the manuscript. He states that he agrees with Wildbore's calculations of rotatory motion and asserts that [John] Landen's method is wrong. At the bottom of the letter are notes relating to a comet [likely Comet C/1790 H1] observed at 10pm on 10 June 1790.

Subject: Physics / Astronomy

Written by Maskelyne in Greenwich [London].
Extent1p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionInk on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1790.0028
Related records in the catalogueAP/7/16
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA5553Maskelyne; Nevil (1732 - 1811)1732 - 1811
NA8116Banks; Sir; Joseph (1744 - 1820); naturalist1744 - 1820
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