Garrard, William, fl1788 - 1828 (astronomer and schoolmaster)
Person
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
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Account with William Garrard, 1800 - 1809
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/17: 289-292
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Papers regarding payments for work done on behalf of the Board.
Dates:
1800 - 1809
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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An incomplete series of fair minutes of meetings of the Board of Longitude, 1765 - 1828
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/4: 4-214
Scope and Contents
Regarding the production of ephemerides; the publication of Tobias Mayer's lunar tables; the printing of the 'Nautical Almanac'; the employment of computers; trials of new astronomical and nautical instruments; William Garrard's method of reducing lunar distances; E. Nayler's new theory of the variation of compasses; elections to the Board of Longitude; the publication of tables of logarithms; the establishment of an observatory at the Cape of Good Hope; the voyage of HMS 'Hecla' and HMS...
Dates:
1765 - 1828
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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Application from William Garrard for a situation as a computer, 1811
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/22: 209-211
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The first part of collection is comprised of papers concerning the internal affairs of the Board of Longitude, including the granting of awards, accounts, minutes, committee papers, petitions and memorials, the loan of instruments, publications and the payment of staff. These are followed by a wide range of papers relating to the Board's work, concerning clocks, chronometers and other instruments; longitude and latitude; magnetic variation; schemes and inventions; tables; pendulum...
Dates:
1811
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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Improvements in the Nautical Almanac, 1819 - 1826
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/22: 3-28
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The first part of collection is comprised of papers concerning the internal affairs of the Board of Longitude, including the granting of awards, accounts, minutes, committee papers, petitions and memorials, the loan of instruments, publications and the payment of staff. These are followed by a wide range of papers relating to the Board's work, concerning clocks, chronometers and other instruments; longitude and latitude; magnetic variation; schemes and inventions; tables; pendulum...
Dates:
1819 - 1826
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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Latitudes and longitudes of places visited in the voyages of the Thetis, 1794-1797, and the Pallas, 1805, under Captain Lord Cochrane, 1794-02-14 - 1805-12-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/67: 177r-215r
Scope and Contents
A set of calculations of the latitudes and longitudes of places visited on voyages of the two ships, compiled by the astronomer William Garrard. The entries for the voyages form a continuous run; the Pallas voyage entries begin on folio 198r but are differentiated from those of the Thetis only by date. An index of the places mentioned is provided [RGO 14/67: 214v-215r]. These include (in order): North Bergen, the Bahamas, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, Bermuda, Pennsylvania,...
Dates:
1794-02-14 - 1805-12-05
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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Letter from William Garrard to Dr Thomas Young, 1820-08-26
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/35: 382-382a
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
Six letters and a paper sent from William Garrard, a schoolmaster at the Royal Naval Asylum and former assistant to Dr Maskelyne, with a related note from John Croker.
Dates:
1820-08-26
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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Letter from William Garrard to Dr Thomas Young, 1820-09-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/35: 385-386
Scope and Contents
Originally enclosing the letter at [RGO 14/35: 383-384] and paper at [RGO 14/35: 387-395].
Dates:
1820-09-09
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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Letter from William Garrard to Dr Thomas Young, 1820-09-13
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/35: 396-397
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
Six letters and a paper sent from William Garrard, a schoolmaster at the Royal Naval Asylum and former assistant to Dr Maskelyne, with a related note from John Croker.
Dates:
1820-09-13
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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Letter from William Garrard to Dr Thomas Young, 1820-11-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/35: 398-399
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
Six letters and a paper sent from William Garrard, a schoolmaster at the Royal Naval Asylum and former assistant to Dr Maskelyne, with a related note from John Croker.
Dates:
1820-11-02
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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Note from John Croker to William Garrard, 1820-08-23
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/35: 381
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
Six letters and a paper sent from William Garrard, a schoolmaster at the Royal Naval Asylum and former assistant to Dr Maskelyne, with a related note from John Croker.
Dates:
1820-08-23
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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Paper from William Garrard, 1820
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/35: 387-395
Scope and Contents
On augmenting the moon's horizontal parallax to enable more correct reductions of lunar observations and computations of lunar eclipses.
Dates:
1820
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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Printed paper by Joseph Barlow, 1818
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/34: 256-261
Scope and Contents
With forwarding remarks by W. Garrard.
Dates:
1818
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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William Garrard on navigation tables and proportional tables, 1798 - 1820
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/46: 95-107
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Correspondence regarding various astronomical and nautical tables.
Dates:
1798 - 1820
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).
Additional filters:
- Subject
- London 6
- Greenwich 5
- Bahamas 1
- Bermuda 1
- Chelsea 1
- Florida 1
- Georgia 1
- North America 1
- North Bergen 1
- Nova Scotia 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Quebec 1
- Rhode Island 1
- Rotherhithe 1
- Saint Lawrence, Gulf of 1
- South Carolina 1
- Virginia 1
- Walworth 1 + ∧ less
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