Gascoigne, William, c1612 - 1644 (inventor of optical instruments)
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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
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Astronomical papers, 1668 - 1717
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 1/69/A
Scope and Contents
Datable items in Flamsteed's hand, including tables 'Pro inscriptione equationum lunarum posita maxima 4.57.13' ('For the inscribing of lunar equations, the greatest proposed 4.57.13'), 1675 (22r); 'Observationum Caelestium Certiorum ... ab Astronomis Anglicanis factarum, Specilegium: vel collectio' ('A harvest or collection of the more accurate celestial observations ... made by English astronomers'), containing extracts from the work of William Gascoigne, William Crabtree and Richard...
Dates:
1668 - 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).
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Calculations for the Moon and Jupiter, 1688 - 1700
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 1/65/A
Scope and Contents
Calculations concerned mainly with the Moon and Jupiter's satellites, compiled from data of 1688-1694 and 1698, with an index (45v-46r); tide-tables for 1696-1699 and 1703-1705 (76r-87r, 99v-108r); stellar data (114r-119r); and a note by Flamsteed about William Gascoigne, William Crabtree and Jeremiah Horrocks (112v). The volume is marked '82' and 'S 1690'.
Dates:
1688 - 1700
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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Correspondence and early observations, 1677
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 1/9
Scope and Contents
'Excerpta Astronomica ex Epistolis D. Gulielmi Gascoignii ad D. Gulielmum Crabtreum et huius Responsis' ('Astronomical excerpts from the letters of William Gascoigne to William Crabtree and his replies'), December 1638 - 22 June 1642 (3r-6r); and Flamsteed's 'Mensuras Diametrorum Solis et Lunae ... aliasque ... observationes' ('Measurements of the diameters of the Sun and Moon ... and other ... observations'), a chronological synopsis, 22 June 1666 - 25 November 1676; 68 folios. The second...
Dates:
1677
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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Correspondence and notes, 1650 - 1695
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 1/68/I
Scope and Contents
Seven notebooks, now bound together into one volume, written in various hands. The contents include sermon notes (299r-308v); clock notes in the hands of Flamsteed and Edmond Halley, 1675-1676 (310r-331v); 'Mr Flamsteed's New Table of Refractions', with mathematical notes by Margaret Flamsteed (332r-353v); Flamsteed's notes on a transit of Mercury, 1677, and other observations by Richard Towneley (354r-361v); Jonas Moore's summaries of correspondence between William Crabtree and William...
Dates:
1650 - 1695
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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Papers on optics, 1650
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 1/67/I
Scope and Contents
Copies of papers on optics, apparently all by William Gascoigne, 1641-1642, transcribed by Jonas Moore during the mid-17th century or later: 'Concerning the makeing pro-portioning and useing of Persp[ective] Glasses' (210r-214v), 'Explanation of the Diagrams for wheeles' (215rv), 'Further notes' (216r-217r), 'De Chartas way demonstrated shortly with notes' (217rv), 'The Demonstration of the ey' (217v-218r), and 'The motion of a Convex Glasse'.
Dates:
1650
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 mathematics and astronomy, 1550 - 1755
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 1/75
Scope and Contents
Seven treatises on mathematical and astronomical subjects bound together into one volume, dated c. 1550-1672 and 1750s, 91 folios. The treatises were added to the collection at G.B. Airy's direction, and there is a contents list in his hand.1. 'Cono Cuneus ... By John Wallis ... 1662', an incomplete copy of the English original of a Latin treatise published in Wallis's 'Opera Mathematica', Vol. 2 (1693), pp. 679-704.2. Diagrams showing 'A view of the Curves made by the...
Dates:
1550 - 1755
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).