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Letter, 'Concerning the mean motion of the Moon's apogee' from Patrick Murdoch to Robert Smith

Reference number: L&P/2/94

Date: 06 April 1750

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from the Rev. Patrick Murdocke, F. R. S. Concerning the mean motion of the Moon's apogee, to the Rev. Dr. Robert Smith, Master of Trinity College Cambridge'

Read 31 January 1751

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L&P/2/94
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06 April 1750
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Ink on paper
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6 pages
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Manuscript

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Patrick Murdoch

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Patrick Murdoch, Letter, 'Concerning the mean motion of the Moon's apogee' from Patrick Murdoch to Robert Smith, 06 April 1750, L&P/2/94, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_94/letter-concerning-the-mean-motion-of-the-moons-apogee-from-patrick-murdoch-to-robert-smith, accessed on 21 April 2025

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