Paper, 'On the eclipses of Agathocles, Thales, and Xerxes' by G B [George Biddell] Airy
Reference number: PT/46/4
Date: 10 December 1852
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59 manuscript pages and three plates showing maps of eclipse shadows over time.
Subject: Astronomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the eclipses of Agathocles, Thales and Xerxes'.
Written by Airy at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. Received by the Royal Society on 15 December 1852. Read 3 February 1853.
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 6, 1854.
- Reference number
- PT/46/4
- Earliest possible date
- 10 December 1852
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 62 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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George Biddell Airy, Paper, 'On the eclipses of Agathocles, Thales, and Xerxes' by G B [George Biddell] Airy, 10 December 1852, PT/46/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_46_4/paper-on-the-eclipses-of-agathocles-thales-and-xerxes-by-g-b-george-biddell-airy, accessed on 19 May 2025
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1853
November 1851 - February 1853 Reference number: PT/46
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Dates: 1802 - 1865
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