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Paper, 'Extrait d'une letter sur la decouverte d'une nouvlle planete [Extract from a letter on the discovery of a new planet]' by Charles Messier

Reference number: L&P/8/123

Date: 08 January 1785

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Astronomical observations. In two letters from M. Francis de Zach, Professor of Mathematics, and Member of the Royal Academies of Sciences at Marseilles, Dijon, and Lyons, to Mr. Tiberius Cavallo, F. R. S'

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08 January 1785
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Charles Messier, Paper, 'Extrait d'une letter sur la decouverte d'une nouvlle planete [Extract from a letter on the discovery of a new planet]' by Charles Messier, 08 January 1785, L&P/8/123, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_123/paper-extrait-dune-letter-sur-la-decouverte-dune-nouvlle-planete-extract-from-a-letter-on-the-discovery-of-a-new-planet-by-charles-messier, accessed on 15 May 2025

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