Paper, 'Demonstrations of the late Dr Maskelyne's formulae for finding the longitude and latitude of a celestial object from its right ascension and declination; and for finding its right ascension and declination from its longitude and latitude, the obliquity of the ecliptic being given in both cases' by Abram [Abraham] Robertson
Reference number: PT/10/8
Date: 1816
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Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/73/5/7.
Subject: Astronomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Demonstrations of the late Dr. Maskelyne's formulæ for finding the longitude and latitude of a celestial object from its right ascension and declination; and for finding its right ascension and declination from its longitude and latitude, the obliquity of the ecliptic being given in both cases'.
Communicated by Sir Joseph Banks. Read 15 February 1816.
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 2, 1833.
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Abraham Robertson, Paper, 'Demonstrations of the late Dr Maskelyne's formulae for finding the longitude and latitude of a celestial object from its right ascension and declination; and for finding its right ascension and declination from its longitude and latitude, the obliquity of the ecliptic being given in both cases' by Abram [Abraham] Robertson, 1816, PT/10/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_10_8/paper-demonstrations-of-the-late-dr-maskelynes-formulae-for-finding-the-longitude-and-latitude-of-a-celestial-object-from-its-right-ascension-and-declination-and-for-finding-its-right-ascension-and-declination-from-its-longitude-and-latitude-the-obliquity-of-the-ecliptic-being-given-in-both-cases-by-abram-abraham-robertson, accessed on 10 December 2024
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