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Letter, 'Observations of a new variable star' from John Goodricke to Henry Charles Englefield

Reference number: L&P/8/127

Date: 10 January 1785

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations of a new variable star'

Read 27 January 1785

Reference number
L&P/8/127
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10 January 1785
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Ink on paper
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12 pages
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Manuscript

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John Goodricke

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John Goodricke, Letter, 'Observations of a new variable star' from John Goodricke to Henry Charles Englefield, 10 January 1785, L&P/8/127, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_127/letter-observations-of-a-new-variable-star-from-john-goodricke-to-henry-charles-englefield, accessed on 12 January 2025

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