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IC.783.047
18 Dec 1783:23,24 (16/853)
Cambridge, December 10, 1783. Mr. Willis, As no particular
account of the new planet discovered by Mr. Herschel, of
Bath, and which has for some time past greatly engaged the
attention of the curious in Europe, has been published in
America, if you will print in your Chronicle the following
extract of a letter from the Rev. Dr. Price of London, to
the Rev. President Willard, respecting this planet, it will
perhaps be grateful to many of your customers. . . [1/2
columns: description of the planet and its discoverer. Mr.
Herschel] is a Hessian, and came over here in a Hessian
regiment; and for some years directed the music at Bath.
The telescopes with which he observes at the Newtonian
reflecting telescopes, made by himself. . .
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