Vincent Wing and John Wing: astronomical volumes
Scope and Contents
MS Add.10425/1: Vincent Wing (1619-1668); annotated by John Wing (c. 1662-1726). Astronomia instaurata: or, A new compendious restauration of astronomie. In four parts. London: printed by R. and W. Leybourn, for the Company of Stationers, MDCLVI. [1656].
MS Add.10425/2: Vincent Wing (1619-1668); Annotated by John Wing (c. 1662-1726). Astronomia Britannica: in qua per novam, concinnioremq[ue] methodum, hi quinq[ue] tractatus traduntur.... Londini: typis Johannis Macock, impensis Georgii Sawbridge, prostantq[ue] venales apud locum vulgò Clerkenwel-Greendictum, 1669.
MS Add.10425/3: John Wing (c. 1662-1726). Autograph manuscript entitled ‘Astronomia Nova Britannica or The New Brittish Astronomy..., c. 1689
MS Add.10425/4: John Wing (c. 1662-1726). Autograph manuscript draft in English of ‘Scientia Stellarum’, with astronomical tables, [1693 and later].
Dates
- Creation: 1656-Early eighteenth century
Creator
Extent
0.01 cubic metre(s) (4 volumes) : paper
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased, 2022
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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