Paper, 'Astronomical observations and experiments tending to investigate the local arrangement of the celestial bodies in space, and to determine the extent and condition of the Milky Way' by Sir William Herschel
Reference number: PT/11/24
Date: 10 May 1817
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Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/73/6/17-18.
Subject: Astronomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Astronomical observations and experiments tending to investigate the local arrangement of the celestial bodies in space, and to determine the extent and condition of the Milky Way'.
Written by Herschel at Slough near Windsor. Read 19 June 1817.
Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.
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- PT/11/24
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- 10 May 1817
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William Herschel, Paper, 'Astronomical observations and experiments tending to investigate the local arrangement of the celestial bodies in space, and to determine the extent and condition of the Milky Way' by Sir William Herschel, 10 May 1817, PT/11/24, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_11_24/paper-astronomical-observations-and-experiments-tending-to-investigate-the-local-arrangement-of-the-celestial-bodies-in-space-and-to-determine-the-extent-and-condition-of-the-milky-way-by-sir-william-herschel, accessed on 15 January 2025
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1817
October 1816 - June 1817 Reference number: PT/11
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