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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the parallax of the fixed stars'.

Read 26 June 1817.

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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PT/11/28
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1817
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Ink on paper
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14 pages
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Manuscript

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John Pond

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John Pond, Paper, 'On the parallax of the fixed stars' by John Pond, 1817, PT/11/28, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_11_28/paper-on-the-parallax-of-the-fixed-stars-by-john-pond, accessed on 05 November 2024

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