Correspondence, 1673 - 1719
Scope and Contents
Flamsteed's drafts of letters, and letters received by others, including Flamsteed to Glen about earthquakes [1692] (95rv); an incomplete reply [to Wren?] to criticisms of Flamsteed's piece on stellar parallax [c. 1700]; Flamsteed [to Pepys?] on the training of naval officers [c. 1697] (99rv); a complaint about pews in Greenwich church [c. 1718] (100r); John Vermuyden to Steven Flamsteed, 1673 (101r); anon. to Immanuel Halton, 1676 (103r); William Balle to Sir Jonas Moore, 1677 (104rv); anon. arguing 'that what the Theory of the Earth affirmes concerning the planet Saturne ... is absurd' (106r-107v); a letter from Christoph Arnold of Sommerfeld, in German, 1690 [translation at RGO 1/73, 14r] (108r-109r); Henry Sherwin to Abraham Sharp, 1705 (111rv); John Ellys to a trustee (not Flamsteed) about the Plumian chair at Cambridge, 1706 (112r-113r); Christopher Hussey to James Hodgson, c. 1708 (114r-117v); and a statement by William Whiston about a magnetic longitude method, 1718 (118r).
Dates
- 1673 - 1719
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
25 folio(s)
Language of Materials
English
German
Finding aid date
2005-10-28 11:26:00+00:00
- Arnold, Christoph, 1650 - 1695 (farmer and astronomer)
- Flamsteed, Stephen, 1618 - 1688 (brewer and businessman)
- Glen, Andrew, 1665 - 1732 (botanist)
- Hodgson, James, 1672 - 1755 (mathematician)
- Moore, Jonas, Sir, 1617 - 1679 (Knight, mathematician and patron of astronomy)
- Pepys, Samuel, 1633 - 1703 (naval official and diarist)
- Sharp, Abraham, 1651 - 1742 (mathematician)
- Vermuyden, Cornelius, Sir, 1590 - 1677 (Knight, drainage engineer)
- Whiston, William, 1667 - 1752 (Chaplain to Bishop of Norwich, scientist)
- Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632 - 1723 (Knight, architect, mathematician and astronomer)
Creator
- From the Series: Flamsteed, John, 1646 - 1719 (astronomer) (Person)
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