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Paper, 'On the precession of the equinoxes produced by the Sun's attraction' by Isaac Milner

Reference number: L&P/7/119

Date: 1779

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'On the precession of the equinoxes produced by the sun's attraction'

Read 24 June 1779

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L&P/7/119
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1779
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Ink on paper
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35 pages
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Manuscript

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Isaac Milner

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Isaac Milner, Paper, 'On the precession of the equinoxes produced by the Sun's attraction' by Isaac Milner, 1779, L&P/7/119, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_119/paper-on-the-precession-of-the-equinoxes-produced-by-the-suns-attraction-by-isaac-milner, accessed on 09 September 2024

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