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Paper, 'Account of a new comet' by Caroline Herschel

Reference number: L&P/9/8

Date: 02 August 1786

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Contains note from William Herschel and plate.

Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a new comet. In a letter from Miss Caroline Herschel to Charles Blagden, M.D. Sec. R. S'

Read 9 November 1786

Reference number
L&P/9/8
Earliest possible date
02 August 1786
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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William Herschel

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William Herschel, Paper, 'Account of a new comet' by Caroline Herschel, 02 August 1786, L&P/9/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_8/paper-account-of-a-new-comet-by-caroline-herschel, accessed on 14 September 2024

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