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Paper, 'Of stars suspected in the seventeenth century to be changeable' by Edward Pigott

Reference number: L&P/8/171

Date: 1785

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Subejct: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations and remarks on those stars which the astronomers of the last century suspected to be changeable'

Read 9 February 1786

Reference number
L&P/8/171
Earliest possible date
1785
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
23 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Of stars suspected in the seventeenth century to be changeable' by Edward Pigott, 1785, L&P/8/171, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_171/paper-of-stars-suspected-in-the-seventeenth-century-to-be-changeable-by-edward-pigott, accessed on 29 November 2023

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