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Paper, 'Traite de la precession des equinoxes [Processes of the precession of the equinoxes]' by Guillaume de Saint-Jacques de Silvabelle

Reference number: L&P/2/345

Date: 1752

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A treatise on the precession of the equinoxes, and in general on the motion of the nodes, and the alteration of the inclination of the orbit of a planet to the ecliptic. Inscribed to the gentlemen of the Royal Society, by M. De St. Jaques Silvabelle.'

Read 6 February 1752

Reference number
L&P/2/345
Earliest possible date
1752
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
39 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Traite de la precession des equinoxes [Processes of the precession of the equinoxes]' by Guillaume de Saint-Jacques de Silvabelle, 1752, L&P/2/345, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_345/paper-traite-de-la-precession-des-equinoxes-processes-of-the-precession-of-the-equinoxes-by-guillaume-de-saint-jacques-de-silvabelle, accessed on 13 May 2026

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