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Description

Contains one plate.

Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'On the declinations of some of the principal fixed stars: with a description of an astronomical circle, and some remarks on the construction of circular instruments'

Read 26 June 1806

Reference number
L&P/12/141
Earliest possible date
1806
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
43 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

John Pond

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John Pond, Paper, 'The declination of some of the principal fixed stars and description of an astronomical circle' by John Pond, 1806, L&P/12/141, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_12_141/paper-the-declination-of-some-of-the-principal-fixed-stars-and-description-of-an-astronomical-circle-by-john-pond, accessed on 18 May 2025

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