Paper, 'Observations of the changeable brightness of the satellites of Jupiter and of the variation in their apparent magnitudes' by William Herschel
Reference number: L&P/11/31
Date: 30 April 1797
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Contains four plates.
Subject: Astronomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the means employed to obtain an overflowing well. In a letter to the Right Honourable Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K. B. P. R. S. from Mr. Benjamin Vulliamy'
Read 1 June 1797
- Reference number
- L&P/11/31
- Earliest possible date
- 30 April 1797
- Physical description
- Ink on paper and four plates
- Page extent
- 24 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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William Herschel, Paper, 'Observations of the changeable brightness of the satellites of Jupiter and of the variation in their apparent magnitudes' by William Herschel, 30 April 1797, L&P/11/31, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_31/paper-observations-of-the-changeable-brightness-of-the-satellites-of-jupiter-and-of-the-variation-in-their-apparent-magnitudes-by-william-herschel, accessed on 14 December 2024
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XV. Observations of the changeable brightness of the satellites of Jupiter, and of the variation in their apparent magnitudes; with a determination of the time of their rotatory motions on their axes. To which is added, a measure of the diameter of the second satellite, and an estimate of the comparative size of all the four External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1797
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1797.0017
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