| RefNo | PT/1/17 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Paper, 'Observations on the nature of the new celestial body discovered by Dr [Heinrich] Olbers, and of the comet which was expected to appear last January in its return from the sun' by Wm [William] Herschel |
| Date | [1807] |
| Description | Six pages of manuscript paper and one plate of figures showing arrangement of constellations.
Subject: Astronomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Observations on the nature of the new celestial body discovered by Dr. Olbers, and of the comet which was expected to appear last January in its return from the sun'.
Read 4 June 1807.
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 | 7p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1800.0148 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1807.0014 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/1/17/1 |
| PT/1/17/2 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8060 | Herschel; Sir; William (1738 - 1822); astronomer | 1738 - 1822 |