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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.

Reference number
PT/32/7
Earliest possible date
1847
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
62 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Thomas Galloway

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Thomas Galloway, Paper, 'On the proper motion of the solar system' by Thomas Galloway, 1847, PT/32/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_32_7/paper-on-the-proper-motion-of-the-solar-system-by-thomas-galloway, accessed on 12 December 2025

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