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TitleLetter, The name of a new planet [Uranus] is announced as Georgium Sidus; with a description of the same' from William Herschel to Joseph Banks
Date1782
DescriptionSubject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from William Herschel, Esq. F. R. S' and 'On the diameter and magnitude of the Georgium Sidus; with a description of the dark and lucid disk and periphery micrometers'

Read 7 November 1782
Extent13p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1783.0002
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1783.0001
RelatedRecordL&P/7/192
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8060Herschel; Sir; William (1738 - 1822); astronomer1738 - 1822
NA8116Banks; Sir; Joseph (1744 - 1820); naturalist1744 - 1820
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