Paper, 'On the secular variation of the moon's mean motion' by J C [John Couch] Adams
Reference number: PT/47/6
Date: 16 June 1853
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Subject: Astronomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the secular variation of the moon's mean motion'.
Received and read by the Royal Society on 16 June 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.
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- PT/47/6
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- 16 June 1853
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- 19 pages
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