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From:
Macedonio Melloni
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
4 February 1835
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Adds clock to telescope, enhancing distance measuring power. Search for Halley's Comet begins. Reports double star data; observes nebulae in JH's Catalogue of Nebulae. R.A.S. location moved to Somerset House. Quarrel between James South and Richard Sheepshanks being arbitrated.