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Subject: Astronomy

Read 22 December 1757

Reference number
L&P/3/274
Earliest possible date
1757
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'On the perturbation of the Earth from planets' from A C Clairault to Gabriel Morris, 1757, L&P/3/274, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_274/letter-on-the-perturbation-of-the-earth-from-planets-from-a-c-clairault-to-gabriel-morris, accessed on 19 June 2025

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