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Letter, 'Investigation of all the changes in the variable star in Sobieski's Shield' from Edward Pigott to Joseph Banks#

Reference number: L&P/12/89

Date: 08 August 1804

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An investigation of all the changes of the variable star in Sobieski's shield, from five year's observations, exhibiting its proportional illuminated parts, and its irregularities of rotation; with conjectures respecting unenlightened heavenly bodies'

Read 7 February 1805

Reference number
L&P/12/89
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08 August 1804
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Ink on paper
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47 pages
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Manuscript

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Joseph Banks

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Joseph Banks, Letter, 'Investigation of all the changes in the variable star in Sobieski's Shield' from Edward Pigott to Joseph Banks#, 08 August 1804, L&P/12/89, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_12_89/letter-investigation-of-all-the-changes-in-the-variable-star-in-sobieskis-shield-from-edward-pigott-to-joseph-banks, accessed on 17 September 2026

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