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'Description of the Planetarium' by Doctor Desaguliers

Reference number: RBO/18/61

Date: 1733

Description

Mentions the work of George Graham; concerning distances of the planets; concerning motion of planets; 'account of the phaenomean explain'd only by the Rotation of the Earth about its axis'
Read to the Royal Society on 21 and 28 February 1733

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RBO/18/61
Earliest possible date
1733
Page extent
33 pages
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Manuscript

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'Description of the Planetarium' by Doctor Desaguliers, 1733, RBO/18/61, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_18_61/description-of-the-planetarium-by-doctor-desaguliers, accessed on 12 January 2026

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