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  <dc:title>Unpublished letter, regarding Charles Wildbore's paper from N [Nevil] Maskelyne to Sir Joseph Banks </dc:title>
  <dc:description>Letter from Maskelyne regarding Wildbore's expanded paper on spherical motion (see AP/7/16 for original version of manuscript), stating that he has not had the time to peruse it properly due to the recent discovery by Miss [Caroline] Herschel of a new comet [Comet C/1790 H1] in April 1790. Maskelyne provides observations from the evening of 18 May 1790 of this comet.

Subject: Physics / Astronomy

Written by Maskelyne in Greenwich [London] and addressed to Banks at Soho Square [London].</dc:description>
  <dc:date>19 May 1790</dc:date>
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