Paper, 'Distance of the sun from the earth' by Samuel Horsley
Reference number: L&P/4/378
Date: 12 February 1767
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Subject: Astronomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A computation of the distance of the Sun from the Earth'
Read 25 March 1767
- Reference number
- L&P/4/378
- Earliest possible date
- 12 February 1767
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- Ink on paper
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- 7 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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