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Paper, 'A catalogue of nearly all the principal fixed stars between the zenith of Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope and the South Pole reduced to the first of January 1824' by Fearon Fallows

Reference number: PT/17/15

Date: 1824

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A catalogue of nearly all the principal fixed stars between the zenith of Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, and the South Pole, reduced to the 1st. of January, 1824'.

Read 26 February 1824.

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PT/17/15
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1824
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Ink on paper
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18 pages
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Manuscript

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Fearon Fallows

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Fearon Fallows, Paper, 'A catalogue of nearly all the principal fixed stars between the zenith of Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope and the South Pole reduced to the first of January 1824' by Fearon Fallows, 1824, PT/17/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_17_15/paper-a-catalogue-of-nearly-all-the-principal-fixed-stars-between-the-zenith-of-cape-town-cape-of-good-hope-and-the-south-pole-reduced-to-the-first-of-january-1824-by-fearon-fallows, accessed on 13 February 2026

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    Dates: 1802 - 1865

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