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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
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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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