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Calculations, relating to 'Researches in physical astronomy' by John William Lubbock

Reference number: PT/19/9

Date: 1830

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Calculations that accompany Lubbock's paper on physical astronomy. Does not include text of paper.

Subject: Astronomy / Mathematics

Published in volume 121 of Philosophical Transactions as 'Researches in physical astronomy'.

Read 9 December 1830.

Abstract of paper 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 3, 1837.

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PT/19/9
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1830
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Ink calculations on fold-out papers
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7 pages
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Manuscript

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John William Lubbock

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John William Lubbock, Calculations, relating to 'Researches in physical astronomy' by John William Lubbock, 1830, PT/19/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_19_9/calculations-relating-to-researches-in-physical-astronomy-by-john-william-lubbock, accessed on 13 June 2026

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