Paper, 'Astronomical observations and experiments, selected for the purpose of ascertaining the relative distances of clusters of stars, and of investigating how far the power of our telescopes may be expected to reach into space when directed to ambiguous celestial objects' by Sir Wm [William] Herschel
Reference number: PT/12/23
Date: 1818
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28 manuscript pages and two plates showing an arrangement of stars in a celestial globe and diagrams for finding azimuths and distances of stars.
Subject: Astronomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Astronomical observations and experiments, selected for the purpose of ascertaining the relative distances of clusters of stars, and of investigating how far the power of our telescopes may be expected to reach into space, when directed to ambiguous celestial objects'.
Written by Herschel in Slough near Windsor. Read 11 June 1818.
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/12/23
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- 1818
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- Ink on paper
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- 30 pages
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- Manuscript
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William Herschel, Paper, 'Astronomical observations and experiments, selected for the purpose of ascertaining the relative distances of clusters of stars, and of investigating how far the power of our telescopes may be expected to reach into space when directed to ambiguous celestial objects' by Sir Wm [William] Herschel, 1818, PT/12/23, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_12_23/paper-astronomical-observations-and-experiments-selected-for-the-purpose-of-ascertaining-the-relative-distances-of-clusters-of-stars-and-of-investigating-how-far-the-power-of-our-telescopes-may-be-expected-to-reach-into-space-when-directed-to-ambiguous-celestial-objects-by-sir-wm-william-herschel, accessed on 04 December 2025
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1818
January 1817 - June 1818 Reference number: PT/12
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