Paper, 'A proposal for discovering the annual parallax of Sirius' by Nevil Maskelyne
Reference number: L&P/4/23
Date: 1760
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Subject: Astronomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A proposal for discovering the annual parallax of Sirius'
Read 26 June 1760
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- L&P/4/23
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- 1760
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- 8 pages
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Nevil Maskelyne, Paper, 'A proposal for discovering the annual parallax of Sirius' by Nevil Maskelyne, 1760, L&P/4/23, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_23/paper-a-proposal-for-discovering-the-annual-parallax-of-sirius-by-nevil-maskelyne, accessed on 20 June 2025
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Date: 31st December 1759
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1759.0080
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