Diagrams, position of comet 29 March to 6 April 1781 by [William Herschel] Plate 24, figures 3-4 showing the position of Herschel's newly discovered comet in relation to the parallel of declination of his telescope, observed 29 March to 6 April 1781. Subject: Astronomy Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Account of a comet'. Written by Herschel at King Street, Bath [Somerset, England]. Read to the Royal Society on 26 April 1781. [1781]