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Star catalogues, 1703-10 - 1719-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 1/30

Scope and Contents

Copies of star catalogues: 'Claudi Ptolemai Regularis dispositio Constellationum...' ('Claudius Ptolemy's regular disposition of constellations or catalogue of fixed stars, translated from Greek into Latin, amended ... by comparison with an Oxford manuscript and with the versions of Trapezuntius, Gauricus, Copernicus and Clavius, and also with the catalogue of Ulug Beigh, of Tycho Brahe, and the heavens themselves. The work of John Flamsteed, M. R. With the additional Greek and Roman characters that can be ascribed to the stars (in Johannes Bayer's images); with longitudes reduced to the year 1690') (3r-14v); Hevelius's star catalogue (15r-31v); Flamsteed's 1686 catalogue of 130 principal stars (32r-33r); and Flamsteed's places of the Moon and planets computed from sextant and mural arc observations by John Witty, Abraham Riley (Ryley), Isaac Wolferman and Joseph Crosthwait (35r-59v); 71 folios.

Dates

  • Creation: 1703-10 - 1719-08

Creator

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).

Extent

1 volume(s) (1 volume)

Language of Materials

Latin

Former / Other Reference

A1/50

Finding aid date

2005-10-19 16:08:46+00:00

Includes index.

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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