Paper, 'An account of observations made with the 8 feet astronomical circle, at the Observatory of Trinity College Dublin, since the beginning of the year 1818, for investigating the effects of parallax and aberration on the places of certain fixed stars; also the comparison of these with former observations for determining the effects of lunar nutation' by Rev John Brinkley
Reference number: PT/15/26i
Date: 1821

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Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of observations made with the eight feet astronomical circle, at the Observatory of Trinity College, Dublin, since the beginning of the year 1818, for investigating the effects of parallax and aberration on the places of certain fixed stars; also the comparison of these with former observations for determining the effects of lunar nutation'.
Read 21 June 1821.
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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John Brinkley, Paper, 'An account of observations made with the 8 feet astronomical circle, at the Observatory of Trinity College Dublin, since the beginning of the year 1818, for investigating the effects of parallax and aberration on the places of certain fixed stars; also the comparison of these with former observations for determining the effects of lunar nutation' by Rev John Brinkley, 1821, PT/15/26i, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_15_26i/paper-an-account-of-observations-made-with-the-8-feet-astronomical-circle-at-the-observatory-of-trinity-college-dublin-since-the-beginning-of-the-year-1818-for-investigating-the-effects-of-parallax-and-aberration-on-the-places-of-certain-fixed-stars-also-the-comparison-of-these-with-former-observations-for-determining-the-effects-of-lunar-nutation-by-rev-john-brinkley, accessed on 17 May 2025
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An account of observations made with the eight-feet astronomical circle, at the observatory of trinity college, Dublin, since the beginning of the year 1818, for investigating the effects of parallax and aberration on the places of certain fixed stars; also the comparison of these with former observations for determining the effects of lunar nutation External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1833
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0159
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XXIV. An account of observations made with the eight feet astronomical circle, at the Observatory of Trinity College, Dublin, since the beginning of the year 1818, for investigating the effects of parallax and aberration on the places of certain fixed stars; also the comparison of these with former observations for determining the effects of lunar nutalion External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1821
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1821.0025
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