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Letter, 'Of the irregularities in the motion of a satellite arising from the spherical figure of its primary' from Charles Walmesley to James Bradley

Reference number: L&P/3/341

Date: 1758

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Of the irregularities in the motion of a satellite arising from the spheroidical figure of its primary planet: In a letter to the Rev. James Bradley D. D. Astronomer Royal, F. R. S. and Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris; by Mr. Charles Walmesley, F. R. S. and Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin, and of the Institute of Bologna'

Read 14 December 1758

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L&P/3/341
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1758
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Ink on paper
Page extent
26 pages
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Manuscript

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Charles Walmesley

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Charles Walmesley, Letter, 'Of the irregularities in the motion of a satellite arising from the spherical figure of its primary' from Charles Walmesley to James Bradley, 1758, L&P/3/341, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_341/letter-of-the-irregularities-in-the-motion-of-a-satellite-arising-from-the-spherical-figure-of-its-primary-from-charles-walmesley-to-james-bradley, accessed on 01 December 2024

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