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Letter, The name of a new planet [Uranus] is announced as Georgium Sidus; with a description of the same' from William Herschel to Joseph Banks

Reference number: L&P/8/1

Date: 1782

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from William Herschel, Esq. F. R. S' and 'On the diameter and magnitude of the Georgium Sidus; with a description of the dark and lucid disk and periphery micrometers'

Read 7 November 1782

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L&P/8/1
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1782
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William Herschel

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William Herschel, Letter, The name of a new planet [Uranus] is announced as Georgium Sidus; with a description of the same' from William Herschel to Joseph Banks, 1782, L&P/8/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_1/letter-the-name-of-a-new-planet-uranus-is-announced-as-georgium-sidus-with-a-description-of-the-same-from-william-herschel-to-joseph-banks, accessed on 03 December 2024

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