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Lloyd, William, 1627 - 1717 (Bishop of Worcester)

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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

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Astronomical papers, 1638-12 - 1719

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 1/69/D
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);...
Dates: 1638-12 - 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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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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Letter from John Flamsteed to the Bishop of Worcester, William Lloyd, 1703-11-27

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 1/77
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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].

Dates: 1703-11-27
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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Sylloge Epistolarum, etc., Eighteenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Kk.05.38
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...
Dates: Eighteenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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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Royal Greenwich Observatory (GBR/0180) 3
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Astronomy 1
Christian calendar 1
Lunar eclipses 1