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[Otto] Rosenberger has calculated perturbations of Halley's Comet by the inner planets. [Wilhelm] Beer and [J. H.] Mädler have a map of the moon and have located two moving spots on Jupiter. F. W. Bessel's assistant has reduced James Bradley's observation to constants of aberration and nutation.
Record created for the Calendar of the Correspondence of Sir John Herschel (CUP: Cambridge), 1998 by Michael J. Crowe ed., David R. Dyck and James J. Kevin assoc. eds
Digital record created by Dr Marvin Bolt and Steven Lucy at the Webster Institute of the Adler Planetarium
Converted to TEI by Michael Hawkins, Epsilon Project, Cambridge University Library
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