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Paper, 'Another new comet, first seen on April 8' by Charles Messier

Reference number: L&P/4/321

Date: 1766

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A discovery, with observations, of two new comets in the Marine Observatory at Paris; by M. Messier, F. R. S. and Member of the Academy of Sciences at Paris; translated from the French, by M. Maty, M. D. Sec. R. S'

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L&P/4/321
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1766
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8 pages
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Charles Messier

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Charles Messier, Paper, 'Another new comet, first seen on April 8' by Charles Messier, 1766, L&P/4/321, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_321/paper-another-new-comet-first-seen-on-april-8-by-charles-messier, accessed on 15 September 2024

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