Towneley, Richard, 1629 - 1707 (astronomer and natural philosopher)
Person
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
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Astronomical papers, 1668 - 1717
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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Compilation of observations, 1677
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 1/13
Scope and Contents
An undated compilation of observations made between October 1671 and November 1676, in Flamsteed's hand, 59 folios. The volume includes observations of solar and lunar diameters (6r-12r), and of the Pleiades (14r-16r); observations made at the Tower, April-July 1675 (17r-21r), and at the Queen's House, Greenwich, September-December 1675 and March-November 1676 (20v-24v, 33r-52r); and 'Maculae sub Sole obser-vatae Historia' ('An account of sunspots observed', 53v-57r). There are also notes...
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
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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Letter book, 1676 - 1712
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 1/43
Scope and Contents
An untitled volume of copies of Flamsteed's correspondence, February 1676 - February 1679 and March 1712, with some undated letters and Flamsteed's notes, 81 folios. Some of the copy letters are in Flamsteed's hand, but most are by amanuenses. The correspondents include (through Henry Oldenburg) J.D. Cassini, 1676-1679; Johann Hevelius, 1676-1678; Ismael Bullialdus [Boulliau], 1676; Edmond Halley; Charles Boucher (including a description to Halley of his voyage to Jamaica); Richard...
Dates:
1676 - 1712
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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Letters from Flamsteed to Towneley, 1968
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 35/158
Scope and Contents
'Letters from John Flamsteed...of Greenwich...to Richard Towneley...of Towneley in Lancashire between 1672 and 1686', a photocopy of a transcription made for the Department of Navigation and Astronomy, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, dated 1 January 1968.
Dates:
1968
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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Mathematical treatises and calculations, 1671 - 1705
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 1/40
Scope and Contents
'Miscellanea Mathematica authore J. F.', a collection of mathematical treatises and calculations, 184 folios: observations by Hevelius, Galileo and Towneley, copied in 1671 (4r-7r); a draft treatise, 1672, discussing extracts from the letters of William Crabtree and William Gascoigne of 1640-1642 (9v-22r), with biographical information about them (22r); collected observations of Jupiter's satellites, with an excerpt on the comet of 1681 (22v-24r); observations made by Richard Towneley during...
Dates:
1671 - 1705
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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Notes on solar and lunar data, 1667 - 1692
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 1/45
Scope and Contents
'Liber observationum', also marked on the back cover 'Liber Collec ... observationum Solarium 1667. Epistola de Parallaxi Martis', containing collected notes on others' solar and lunar data, with Flamsteed's own planetary data, 66 folios. Nearly all of the writing is in Flamsteed's hand. The contents are dated 1667-1692, but may be of a later date. The volume includes 'Solares Observationes ... digestae per J. Flamsteedium' (2r-23v); notes of Flamsteed's planetary observations...
Dates:
1667 - 1692
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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Treatise on solar parallax, 1674-04
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 1/68/F
Scope and Contents
'Epistola prima ... Richardo Towneleijo' ('First letter to ... Richard Towneley'), Flamsteed's incomplete draft of a treatise on the solar parallax obtained through observations of Mars.
Dates:
1674-04
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).