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'Account of the Appearance of Mercury passing over the Suns disk on the 29th of October 1723 determining the mean motion and fixing the nodes of that Planets Orb' by Edmond Halley

Reference number: RBO/11/102

Date: 1725

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Read to the Royal Society on 13 May 1725

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RBO/11/102
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1725
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11 pages
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'Account of the Appearance of Mercury passing over the Suns disk on the 29th of October 1723 determining the mean motion and fixing the nodes of that Planets Orb' by Edmond Halley, 1725, RBO/11/102, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_11_102/account-of-the-appearance-of-mercury-passing-over-the-suns-disk-on-the-29th-of-october-1723-determining-the-mean-motion-and-fixing-the-nodes-of-that-planets-orb-by-edmond-halley, accessed on 21 May 2026

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