RefNo | PT/8/10 |
Level | File |
Title | Paper, 'A new method of deducing a first approximation to the orbit of a comet from three geocentric observations' by James Ivory |
Date | [1814] |
Description | 114 manuscript pages and one plate showing directions of the comet and the movement of the earth in relation to the comet.
Subject: Astronomy / Mathematics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A new method of deducing a first approximation to the orbit of a comet from three geocentric observations'.
Communicated by Henry Brougham. Read 17 February 1814.
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. |
Extent | 115p |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1800.0296 |
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1814.0011 |
RelatedRecord | PT/8/10/1 |
PT/8/10/2 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA7611 | Ivory; Sir; James (1765 - 1842); mathematician | 1765 - 1842 |
NA8151 | Brougham; Henry Peter (1778 - 1868); Baron Brougham and Vaux | 1778 - 1868 |