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Lagrange, Joseph Louis, 1736 - 1813 (mathematician and astronomer)

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Papers on astronomy, 1754 - 1807

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 4/211
Scope and Contents

Loose papers on physical astronomy containing a considerable number of miscellaneous calculations, including works on the force of the Sun on the Moon in the direction of the radius vector, methods for finding alterations of the plane of the lunar orbit, and abstracts on the work of Laplace and Lagrange.

Dates: 1754 - 1807
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