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Paper, 'On the spectra of some of the fixed stars' by Wm [William] Huggins and W A [William Allen] Miller

Reference number: PT/70/9

Date: 1864

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Illustrations for this paper are located with the following paper by Huggins (see PT/70/10). This mirrors how the illustrations for the two papers were published in Philosophical Transactions.

Subject: Astronomy

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

Received by the Royal Society on 28 April 1864. Read 26 May 1864.

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 13, 1864.

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PT/70/9
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1864
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63 pages
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Manuscript

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William Huggins

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William Allen Miller

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William Huggins, William Allen Miller, Paper, 'On the spectra of some of the fixed stars' by Wm [William] Huggins and W A [William Allen] Miller, 1864, PT/70/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_70_9/paper-on-the-spectra-of-some-of-the-fixed-stars-by-wm-william-huggins-and-w-a-william-allen-miller, accessed on 14 September 2024

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