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Letter, 'As to an astronomical discovery - a new method of calculating eclipses' from Christian Louis Gersten to Cromwell Mortimer

Reference number: L&P/1/289

Date: 03 March 1744

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21 pages in Latin with tables.

Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Methodus nova calculi eclipsium terræ specialis; vel quorumcunque occursuum lunæ cum stellis, tam errantibus quam inerrantibus: Auctore Christiano Ludovico Gersten, R. S. Sod. & Math. Prof. in Academia Giesensi'

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L&P/1/289
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03 March 1744
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23 pages
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Manuscript

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Christian Ludwig Gersten

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Christian Ludwig Gersten, Letter, 'As to an astronomical discovery - a new method of calculating eclipses' from Christian Louis Gersten to Cromwell Mortimer, 03 March 1744, L&P/1/289, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_289/letter-as-to-an-astronomical-discovery-a-new-method-of-calculating-eclipses-from-christian-louis-gersten-to-cromwell-mortimer, accessed on 11 November 2025

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