Greenwich
Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:
Letter from Thomas Wright, Island of St John, 1799-05-01
The letter concerns observations of the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites which were taken to establish the exact location of several rivers to determine the boundary between New Brunswick and the District of Maine (then part of Massachusetts).
Letter from William Bligh, Sydney, Australia, 1807-01-28
The letter contains observations of an eclipse of the Sun at Port Jackson, Sydney on 9 December 1806. A duplicate of the letter is at [RGO 4/187: 40b].
Letter from William Bligh, Sydney, Australia, 1807-10-31
The letter contains an astronomical account of a comet observed on 27 September 1807 at Port Jackson, Sydney.
Letter from William Gooch, Brockdish, Norfolk, 1794-04-27
The letter is concerned with the settling of accounts.
Letter from William Manwaring, Paddington, 1799-12-17
The letter was sent with gifts of a pair of pigeons and some pears. The letter is covered with various computations in Maskelyne's hand.
Letter from William Marsden, Fort Marlborough (Bengkulu in Indonesia), 1772-11-25
In the letter Marsden praises Maskelyne's 'British Mariner's Guide' and method of finding longitude, and relates his own observations made with a sextant.
Letters from Maskelyne to Henry Andrews, 1768 - 1811
The letters are primarily from Nevil Maskelyne but include three sent to Andrews by Margaret Maskelyne, following the death of her father.
Notes and tables on various rates of chronometers, 1779 - 1826
Notes on the errors of Earnshaw's timekeepers, 1796-01 - 1797-01
Translated letter from Julian Canelas, Isle of Leon, 1806-10-05
The letter asking for observations of the occultations of Antares on 20 March 1805, and the solar eclipse on 16 June 1806 to compare with his own.