Identity area
Reference code
Adams/Box 20/20/6/2
Unique identifier
GB 275 Adams/Box 20/20/6/2
Title
Paper
Date(s)
- 1866 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
3p paper
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Repository
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Proposal, in French, to l'Academie des Sciences to offer a prize for a study of whether the recently published equation of the Moon's motion, due to the eccentricity of the orbit of the earth [work of JCA and Airy], accords with records of ancient eclipses.