Delambre, Jean Baptiste Joseph, 1749-1822, astronomer. Paris. To Joseph Nicolas Nicollet. Announces to Nicollet that he is to share half of the Royal Academy of Sciences award for 1820 for his "grand travail" on the libration of the moon with the German astronomer Johann Franz Encke for his observations of the comet named for him at the public meeting on March 27., 1820, March 24 -
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- box 4
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- French
- Written by a secretary but signed by Delambre.
- Acquisition information:
- Source of purchase by Lathrop C. Harper, 8 West 40th Street, New York, New York, 10018, unknown. Harper lot 12314. 1968.
- Physical description:
- Autograph letter signed 2 p. 25 cm.
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