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  1. Cosmography archives

    Correspondence between Messier's Catalogue and Dreyer's New General Catalogue identifiers, with positions and descriptions, in a convenient tabular form.

    by Harlow Shapley and Helen Davis (1917)

    ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1917

    #Cosmography #HarlowShapley #HelenDavis #Messier #Dreyer #galaxies #Cosmology #CosmographyArchives #archives #science #astronomy #astrodon

  2. Cosmography archives

    Astronomical Observations relating to the Construction of the Heavens, arranged for the Purpose of a critical Examination, the Result of which appears to throw some new Light upon the Organization of the celestial Bodies.

    by William Herschel (1811)

    ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1811

    #Cosmography #WilliamHerschel #galaxies #Cosmology #nebulae #CosmographyArchives #science #astronomy #astrodon #science #history #historyofscience

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    Distribution of the Nebulæ, drawn from the 1864 General Catalogue of Nebulæ and Clusters of Stars published by John Herschel.

    by Richard A. Proctor (1869)
    ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1869

    #Cosmology #Cosmography #galaxies #CosmographyArchives #nebulae #science #astronomy #astrodon #MilkyWay

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    Nêbuleuses découvertes par différens Astronomes, que M. Messier a cherchées inutilement.

    Connoissance des Temps, ou Connoissance des Mouvemens Célestes, Pour l'Année bissextile 1784, pp 268-269.

    gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6

    #Cosmography #CosmographyArchives #Messier #nebulae #ConnoissancedesTemps #astronomy #astrodon #archives #history #HistoryOfScience #Hevelius #LaCaille #Cassini #Flamsteed #astronmer #astronomers #science

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    2005: Discovery of the Sloan Great Wall

    by J. Richard Gott and co-authors
    doi.org/10.1086/428890

    At the time of its discovery, this 1.37 billion light-years long filament is the largest observed structure in the Universe.

    #Cosmology #galaxies #SloanGreatWall #Cosmography #archives #archive #CosmographyArchives #history #science #HistoryOfScience #Astrodon #astrophysics #astronomy #physics #STEM #Universe #CosmicWeb