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Observations of the Satellites of Uranus, by William Lassell

Reference number: HS/19/234

Date: 1847

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Clean copy of the "Observations of the Satellites of Uranus, made with the 20-feet Equatoreal" by Lassell and in his hand. The observations were published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 12, Issue 5, March 1852, Pages 152–154. These were verbatim copied from Lassell's journal.
No correspondence between Sir John Herschel and William Lassell is known, but from a letter to George Biddell Airy, we know that Lassell wrote to Herschel in 1848 to report his discovery of the 8th satellite of Saturn.

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HS/19/234
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1847
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pp.
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Manuscript

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William Lassell

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William Lassell, Observations of the Satellites of Uranus, by William Lassell, 1847, HS/19/234, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_19_234/observations-of-the-satellites-of-uranus-by-william-lassell, accessed on 25 March 2025

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