Lindley, Joseph, fl1781 - 1795 (assistant to Nevil Maskelyne)
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
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Account with Joseph Lindley, 1784 - 1795
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/17: 450-454
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Papers regarding payments for work done on behalf of the Board.
Dates:
1784 - 1795
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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George Margetts on a table of altitudes and azimuths, 1790 - 1794
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/46: 39-63
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Correspondence regarding various astronomical and nautical tables.
Dates:
1790 - 1794
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 James L. Ewart on eclipses of Jupiter's satellites observed at Calcutta, 1794-07-20
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/36: 28-30
Scope and Contents
Sent to J. Lindley.
Dates:
1794-07-20
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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Notebook of Joseph Lindley, 1785 - 1786
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 4/327
Scope and Contents
The principal part of the notebook is a transcription of a pamphlet by T. Clapp, late Professor of Valo College, entitled 'Conjectures upon the Nature and Motion of Meteors &c', dated 1781, in which Clapp discusses the appearance, velocity, direction, noise, duration of visibility, frequency of appearance, apparent size and equivalent energy of the explosive concussion of meteors, together with the air resistance encountered by meteors and the conjecture that the flames from meteors are...
Dates:
1785 - 1786
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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