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RefNoPT/2/12
LevelFile
TitlePaper, 'Observations of a comet made with a view to investigate its magnitude and the nature of its illumination. To which is added an account of a new irregularity lately perceived in the apparent figure of the planet Saturn' by William Herschel
Date[1808]
Description16 manuscript pages and one plate showing phases of a comet.

Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Observations of a comet, made with a view to investigate its magnitude and the nature of its illumination. To which is added, an account of a new irregularity lately perceived in the apparent figure of the planet Saturn'.

Read 7 April 1808.

Abstract 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 1, 1832.
Extent17p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1800.0162
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1808.0013
RelatedRecordPT/2/12/1
PT/2/12/2
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8060Herschel; Sir; William (1738 - 1822); astronomer1738 - 1822
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