Paper, 'Observations on the nature of the new celestial body discovered by Dr [Heinrich] Olbers, and of the comet which was expected to appear last January in its return from the sun' by Wm [William] Herschel
Reference number: PT/1/17
Date: 1807
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Six pages of manuscript paper and one plate of figures showing arrangement of constellations.
Subject: Astronomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Observations on the nature of the new celestial body discovered by Dr. Olbers, and of the comet which was expected to appear last January in its return from the sun'.
Read 4 June 1807.
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 1, 1832.
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- PT/1/17
- Earliest possible date
- 1807
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- Ink on paper
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- 7 pages
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- Manuscript
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William Herschel, Paper, 'Observations on the nature of the new celestial body discovered by Dr [Heinrich] Olbers, and of the comet which was expected to appear last January in its return from the sun' by Wm [William] Herschel, 1807, PT/1/17, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_1_17/paper-observations-on-the-nature-of-the-new-celestial-body-discovered-by-dr-heinrich-olbers-and-of-the-comet-which-was-expected-to-appear-last-january-in-its-return-from-the-sun-by-wm-william-herschel, accessed on 21 June 2025
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1807
1802-1810 Reference number: PT/1
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Dates: 1802 - 1865
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