Paper, 'On the proper motion of the solar system' by Thomas Galloway
Reference number: PT/32/7
Date: 1847
Description
62 manuscript pages including three figures illustrating calculations of the motion of solar objects.
Subject: Astronomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the proper motion of the solar system'.
Received by the Royal Society on 4 March 1847. Read 15 April 1847.
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 5, 1851.
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- PT/32/7
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- 1847
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- 62 pages
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- Manuscript
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1847
April 1846 - June 1847 Reference number: PT/32
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