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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the parallax of α Lyræ'.

Read 14 November 1822.

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/16/7
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1822
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Ink on paper
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12 pages
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Manuscript

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John Pond

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John Pond, Paper, 'On the parallax of α lyræ' by John Pond, 1822, PT/16/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_16_7/paper-on-the-parallax-of-α-lyræ-by-john-pond, accessed on 14 November 2025

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