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Description

Contains three figures.

Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of the changes that have happened, during the last twenty-five years, in the relative situation of double-stars; with an investigation of the cause to which they are owing'

Read 9 June 1803

Reference number
L&P/12/57
Earliest possible date
1803
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
38 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

William Herschel

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William Herschel, Paper, 'Changed in the relative positions of double stars during the last 25 years and the reasons' by William Herschel, 1803, L&P/12/57, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_12_57/paper-changed-in-the-relative-positions-of-double-stars-during-the-last-25-years-and-the-reasons-by-william-herschel, accessed on 19 April 2026

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