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Correspondence, 1673 - 1719

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 1/69/C

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

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).

Extent

25 folio(s)

Language of Materials

English

German