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Paper, 'On the parallax of the fixed stars in right ascension' by John Pond

Reference number: PT/12/26

Date: 1818

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the parallax of the fixed stars in right ascension'.

Read 28 May 1818.

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/12/26
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1818
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10 pages
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John Pond

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John Pond, Paper, 'On the parallax of the fixed stars in right ascension' by John Pond, 1818, PT/12/26, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_12_26/paper-on-the-parallax-of-the-fixed-stars-in-right-ascension-by-john-pond, accessed on 16 April 2026

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