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Paper, 'On the theory of the perturbations of the planets' by James Ivory

Reference number: PT/20/6

Date: 22 December 1831

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the theory of the perturbations of the planets'.

Read 19 January 1832.

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 3, 1837.

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PT/20/6
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22 December 1831
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Ink on paper
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68 pages
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Manuscript

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James Ivory

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James Ivory, Paper, 'On the theory of the perturbations of the planets' by James Ivory, 22 December 1831, PT/20/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_20_6/paper-on-the-theory-of-the-perturbations-of-the-planets-by-james-ivory, accessed on 20 July 2026

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