Letter, from Johann Elert Bode to Sir John Herschel, dated at Berlin
Reference number: HS/4/163
Date: 17 October 1820
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Autograph letter signed by sender. Thanks John Frederick William Herschel for news of newly formed Astronomical Society; will be pleased to be a foreign correspondent for it.
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- HS/4/163
- Earliest possible date
- 17 October 1820
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- 1 page
- Format
- Manuscript
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Johann Elert Bode
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Johann Elert Bode, Letter, from Johann Elert Bode to Sir John Herschel, dated at Berlin, 17 October 1820, HS/4/163, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_4_163/letter-from-johann-elert-bode-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-berlin, accessed on 12 November 2025
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Correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel
1812-1870 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel , Sir; John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS -
Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 4 Beckedorff-Bullan
1817-1871 Reference number: HS/4
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John Frederick William Herschel
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Dates: 1807 - 1875
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