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  <dc:title>Catalogue of double stars, by [Antoine-Joseph] Yvon Villarceau</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Handwritten catalogue of double stars presented to the Académie des sciences in 1847 by Villarceau, but not published. Enclosure removed from HS/17/418. Preamble introducing the observations of double stars by William Herschel, John Herschel, M. Struve which are used for the following tables. Table 1 giving the positions for various observations between 1782 and 1847 with orbit relative to Hercules, 1st approximation and a corrected position. Table 2 comparing the obsevations taken at different date by the astronomers and Villarceau's proposed approximations and corrections.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1 February 1849</dc:date>
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