| RefNo | PT/46/4 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Paper, 'On the eclipses of Agathocles, Thales, and Xerxes' by G B [George Biddell] Airy |
| Date | 10 December 1852 |
| Description | 59 manuscript pages and three plates showing maps of eclipse shadows over time.
Subject: Astronomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the eclipses of Agathocles, Thales and Xerxes'.
Written by Airy at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. Received by the Royal Society on 15 December 1852. Read 3 February 1853.
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 6, 1854. |
| Extent | 62p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1850.0096 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1853.0007 |
| RelatedRecord | RR/2/3 |
| RR/2/4 |
| RR/2/206 |
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| PT/46/4/4 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8035 | Airy; Sir; George Biddell (1801 - 1892); astronomer and mathematician | 1801 - 1892 |