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
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- L&P/12/89
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- 08 August 1804
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- 47 pages
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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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VI. 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 External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1805
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1805.0008
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