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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Elements of new tables of the motions of Jupiter’s satellites; In a letter to the Reverend Charles Mason, D. D. Woodwardian Professor in the University of Cambridge, and F. R. S. From Mr. Ri­chard Dunthorne'

Read 5 March 1761

Reference number
L&P/4/56
Earliest possible date
03 March 1761
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'Observations of Jupiter's satellites' from Richard Dunthorne to Charles Mason, 03 March 1761, L&P/4/56, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_56/letter-observations-of-jupiters-satellites-from-richard-dunthorne-to-charles-mason, accessed on 02 November 2024

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