Flamsteed, Margaret, c1669 - 1730 (wife of John Flamsteed, Astronomer Royal)
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
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Astronomical and other papers, 1660 - 1719
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 1/69/E
Scope and Contents
Undated items, mostly in hands other than Flamsteed's, including mathematical notes by Jonas Moore (155r-159v); 'The Observation of Easter' (160r-165v); optical and mathematical notes (166r-170r, 210r-213r, 220r-226v); 'De Latitudine Lunae', in one whole and one part chapter (171r-174v); a note of Burstow expenses (175r); 'Speculum Archimedis' (176r-177r); a table of right ascensions by Abraham Sharp (178r); 'Conceptions by what means to come to the knowledge of distances of places' by...
Dates:
1660 - 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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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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Guardbook of letters, 1674-03 - 1719-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 1/37
Scope and Contents
The contents of a guardbook of letters received by Flamsteed, 162 folios. The dorses have often been used by Flamsteed for rough calculations. The correspondents include several people connected with Flamsteed's living of Burstow or with other property. The volume includes a printed notice advertising William Whiston's experiment to find the speed of light and sound (150r).The correspondents are Stephen Gray; [Dr] John Arbuthnot; 'E.B.' [probably to Mrs Flamsteed, telling the story...
Dates:
1674-03 - 1719-03
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 theorems and notes, 1692 - 1693
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 1/67/L
Scope and Contents
Mathematical theorems; notes on optical principles and problems, navigation, and Jupiter and the Moon; and a list of French officer casualties. The volume is dated 1693, but the contents are probably mainly from 1692-1693. Most of the writing is in Margaret Flamsteed's hand, but Samuel Clowes' handwriting also features. The volume is marked '62'.
Dates:
1692 - 1693
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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Solar, lunar and Jovian tables, 1690 - 1707
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 1/49
Scope and Contents
Three books of solar, lunar and Jovian tables, numbered by Flamsteed 85, 65 and 83, stitched together with a few additional folios to form one volume, 87 folios. The writing is in the hands of Flamsteed and others.Book 85: Solar and lunar places for 1705-1707 (2r-16v), and tables of Jupiter for 1687-1690, with calculations (18r-22r).Book 65: Personal accounts (31r-32r); two drafts of Flamsteed's letter on stellar parallax (32v-33v, 59v-63r); tables of equations of light and...
Dates:
1690 - 1707
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).