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Paper, 'The results of observations made at the Observatory of Trinity College Dublin for determining the obliquity of the ecliptic and the maximum of the aberration of light' by Rev J [John] Brinkley

Reference number: PT/13/19

Date: 1819

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The results of observations made at the Observatory of Trinity College, Dublin, for determining the obliquity of the ecliptic, and the maximum of the aberration of light'.

Read 1 April 1819.

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/13/19
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1819
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10 pages
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John Brinkley, Paper, 'The results of observations made at the Observatory of Trinity College Dublin for determining the obliquity of the ecliptic and the maximum of the aberration of light' by Rev J [John] Brinkley, 1819, PT/13/19, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_13_19/paper-the-results-of-observations-made-at-the-observatory-of-trinity-college-dublin-for-determining-the-obliquity-of-the-ecliptic-and-the-maximum-of-the-aberration-of-light-by-rev-j-john-brinkley, accessed on 06 November 2025

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