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RefNoAP/19/17
Previous numbersAP.19.17
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished paper, 'On the elements of the orbit of the comet of Halley in 1759' by J W [John William] Lubbock
Date1835
DescriptionLubbock shares calculations on the eccentricity, inclination, longitude of ascending node and longitude of the perihelion of Halley's Comet as observed in 1759. Marked on back as 'withdrawn by the author' by Peter Mark Roget.

Subject: Astronomy

Received and read 7 May 1835.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On the elements of the orbit of the comet of Halley in 1759'.
Extent5p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0201
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CodePersonNameDates
NA7010Lubbock; Sir; John William (1803 - 1865)1803 - 1865
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