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Unpublished paper, 'Observations on Halley's Comet made at Markree, Sligo, in the months of August, September, October and November 1835' by Edward Cooper

Reference number: AP/19/5

Date: 1835

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Cooper's observations on Halley's Comet from Markree Castle, County Sligo [Ireland]. Includes a table of results showing the approximate location of Halley's Comet between 25 August 1835 and 16 November 1835.

Subject: Astronomy

Received 25 November 1835. Read 26 November 1835. Communicated by Captain [Francis] Beaufort.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'Observations on Halley’s Comet, made at Mackree, Sligo, in the Months of August, September, October and November 1835'.

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AP/19/5
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1835
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7 pages
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Edward Joshua Cooper

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Edward Joshua Cooper, Unpublished paper, 'Observations on Halley's Comet made at Markree, Sligo, in the months of August, September, October and November 1835' by Edward Cooper, 1835, AP/19/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_19_5/unpublished-paper-observations-on-halleys-comet-made-at-markree-sligo-in-the-months-of-august-september-october-and-november-1835-by-edward-cooper, accessed on 13 February 2026

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