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Letter, 'Determination of the heliocentric longitude of the descending node of Saturn' from Thomas Bugge to Joseph Banks

Reference number: L&P/9/15

Date: 1786

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Determination of the heliocentric longitude of the descending node of Saturn'

Read 7 December 1786

Reference number
L&P/9/15
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1786
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Ink on paper
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6 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Bugge

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Thomas Bugge, Letter, 'Determination of the heliocentric longitude of the descending node of Saturn' from Thomas Bugge to Joseph Banks, 1786, L&P/9/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_15/letter-determination-of-the-heliocentric-longitude-of-the-descending-node-of-saturn-from-thomas-bugge-to-joseph-banks, accessed on 06 October 2024

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