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Letter, 'Extract of a letter from Dr [Heinrich] Olbers FRS to Dr [Thomas] Young, For Sec RS, announcing the discovery of a new planet'

Reference number: PT/1/15

Date: 02 April 1807

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Quoted extract of a letter sent from Dr [Heinrich] Olbers to Royal Society Foreign Secretary Dr [Thomas] Young. Extract is addressed to Royal Society President Sir Joseph Banks.

Subject: Astronomy

Extracted letter was sent by Olbers from Bremen on 2 April 1807. Not published in Philosophical Transactions.

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PT/1/15
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02 April 1807
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias Olbers

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Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias Olbers, Letter, 'Extract of a letter from Dr [Heinrich] Olbers FRS to Dr [Thomas] Young, For Sec RS, announcing the discovery of a new planet', 02 April 1807, PT/1/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_1_15/letter-extract-of-a-letter-from-dr-heinrich-olbers-frs-to-dr-thomas-young-for-sec-rs-announcing-the-discovery-of-a-new-planet, accessed on 18 April 2025

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