Scope and Contents Roughly datable items in hands other than Flamsteed's, mainly on astronomical subjects, including observing notes in William Crabtree's hand, 1638 (120r-124v); 'De inclinatione Magneticale', in an unidentified hand [c. 1640] (125r-126r); 'Ephemeris Anni Christi 1652' (127v-129v); a copy of an order concerning Gresham College, in Jonas Moore's hand [c. 1676] (130r-131r); predicted places of the Moon and Saturn for 1677-1678 (132r-133v); a diagram of a 1684 comet by Abraham Sharp (134r);...

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...

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Concerning calculations of the time of the lunar eclipse of 3 April [AD] 33 [and its identification as eclipse recorded as occurring on the day of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ].

Scope and Contents Sylloge Epistolarum, etc. Collected by Abednego Sellers, as is attested in a note signed G. Ashby, St John's, written in the fly-leaf. Sellers was author of a history of Palmyra. His own Index to the volume, on p. 4, is as follows: [1] Litteræ ἀμοιβαίαι inter Rev. [Guil. Lloyd], Episc. Asapheus, et DD. Pagium Norisium, et Dodwellum vv. cll. p. 1; [2] Epist God. Wendelini de ætate Manilii p. 123; [3] Epist God. Wendelini de Horoscopo Augusti Æs. p. 151; [4] Vita Bilibaldi...