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| Genre/Form: | Early works to 1800 Observations Early works to 1800 Records and correspondence |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Isaac Newton; James Gregory; Edmond Halley; Johannes Hevelius; Giovanni Domenico Cassini |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John Flamsteed; Royal Greenwich Observatory.; Great Britain. Public Record Office.; National Archives (Great Britain) |
| OCLC Number: | 192023467 |
| Language Note: | Some entries in Latin. |
| Notes: | Title from The National Archives online catalogue. Document numbers: RGO 1-76 (1638-1731). |
| Description: | microfilm reels ; 35 mm. |
| Series Title: | Records of the Public Record Office., R.G.O. 1. |
| Other Titles: | Astronomers' Royal Papers, Flamsteed Astronomers Royal Records, 1675-1764 R.G.O. 1 RGO 1 |
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Abstract:
Microfilm copies of the papers of John Flamsteed, Astronomer Royal 1675-1719. Flamsteed's observations, made with the various instruments that he acquired, are preserved both in their original note books and in the form in which he eventually put them together to be published posthumously in his Historiae Coelestis of 1725 and his Atlas Coelestis of 1729. There is also correspondence with contemporaries including Isaac Newton, James Gregory, Edmond Halley, Johannes Hevelius and Giovanni Domenico Cassini as well as amateur astronomers. The collection also contains correspondence and documents involving aspects of Flamsteed's life outside astronomy: as rector of the parish of Burstow and as the inheritor of his father's lead mining interests.
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Related Subjects:(8)
- Royal Greenwich Observatory -- Observations -- Early works to 1800.
- Astronomy -- Observations -- Early works to 1800.
- Astronomical observatories -- Records and correspondence.
- Newton, Isaac, -- 1642-1727.
- Gregory, James, -- 1638-1675.
- Halley, Edmond, -- 1656-1742.
- Hevelius, Johannes, -- 1611-1687.
- Cassini, Giovanni Domenico, -- 1625-1712.
