Pepys, Samuel, 1633 - 1703 (naval official and diarist)
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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Correspondence, 1673 - 1719
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 1/69/C
Scope and Contents
Flamsteed's drafts of letters, and letters received by others, including Flamsteed to Glen about earthquakes [1692] (95rv); an incomplete reply [to Wren?] to criticisms of Flamsteed's piece on stellar parallax [c. 1700]; Flamsteed [to Pepys?] on the training of naval officers [c. 1697] (99rv); a complaint about pews in Greenwich church [c. 1718] (100r); John Vermuyden to Steven Flamsteed, 1673 (101r); anon. to Immanuel Halton, 1676 (103r); William Balle to Sir Jonas Moore, 1677 (104rv);...
Dates:
1673 - 1719
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Treatises on navigation and astronomy, 1697 - 1717
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 1/32/D
Scope and Contents
A draft treatise on the history of navigation and astronomy, 1697 (108v-138r), eventually sent as a letter to Samuel Pepys, with two fragments of Flamsteed's draft preface to the 'Historia Coelestis Britannica', 1717 (139r-146v), and a fragment of a Latin treatise on ancient astronomy (147r-152r). The treatise is in the hand of an amanuensis, with amendments by Flamsteed.
Dates:
1697 - 1717
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).