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Hansen, Peter Andreas, 1795 - 1874 (astronomer)

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Papers on the Hansen-Encke controversy, 1858

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/766
Scope and Contents

Copies of pieces on the controversy between Hansen and Encke regarding Brunnow's tables of Flora, translated by W.I. Lynn, 105 pages. The volume is comprised principally of a correspondence between the two protagonists. It includes the recent investigations at the Berlin Observatory on the theory of perturbations of Egeria and Flora.

Dates: 1858
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