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Description

Contains six plates.

Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'On the quantity and velocity of the solar motion'

Read 27 February 1806

Reference number
L&P/12/125
Earliest possible date
1806
Physical description
Ink on paper and six plates
Page extent
32 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

William Herschel

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William Herschel, Paper, 'On the quantity and velocity of the solar motion' by William Herschel, 1806, L&P/12/125, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_12_125/paper-on-the-quantity-and-velocity-of-the-solar-motion-by-william-herschel, accessed on 15 September 2026

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