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Calculations and tables, 1684 - 1690

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 1/53
Scope and Contents An untitled book of calculations and tables relating to Jupiter and other planets, Jupiter's satellites, equations of light and time, and lunar and stellar places, 174 folios. There are notes on instrument calibration (5rv), sunspots (8rv), longitudes of places (24v-25r, 167r-168v), faults of Molyneux's Dublin tide tables (59v-60r), and refractions (169r), as well as nonagesimal tables (12r-16r). Much of the writing is in Flamsteed's hand. The volume was begun some time before 15 March 1684,...
Dates: 1684 - 1690
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