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Paper, English translation of ['Observations and measurements of the planet Vesta'] by Johann Hieronymous Schroter

Reference number: PT/1/13

Date: 1807

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Subject: Astronomy

English version of Schroter's paper found at PT/1/12 by an unknown translator.

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Observations and measurements of the planet Vesta' by John Jerome Schroeter.

Read 28 May 1807.

Abstract published in English 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 1, 1832.

Reference number
PT/1/13
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1807
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Johann Hieronymus Schroter

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Johann Hieronymus Schroter, Paper, English translation of ['Observations and measurements of the planet Vesta'] by Johann Hieronymous Schroter, 1807, PT/1/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_1_13/paper-english-translation-of-observations-and-measurements-of-the-planet-vesta-by-johann-hieronymous-schroter, accessed on 25 April 2025

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