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Translation of letter, from Johann Elert Bode to Sir John Herschel, dated at Berlin

Reference number: HS/4/165a

Date: 28 August 1821

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Modern translation of letter HS/4/165. Autograph letter signed by sender. Should have received the Astronomical Yearbook. No news of its receipt or answers to letters of 12 May and 19 June. Observations which John Frederick William Herschel sent will appear in the 1824 Yearbook. Has not received the Nautical Almanac for 1821/2.

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HS/4/165a
Earliest possible date
28 August 1821
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1 pagep
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Manuscript

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Johann Elert Bode

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Johann Elert Bode, Translation of letter, from Johann Elert Bode to Sir John Herschel, dated at Berlin, 28 August 1821, HS/4/165a, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_4_165a/translation-of-letter-from-johann-elert-bode-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-berlin, accessed on 26 January 2025

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