New building on Greenwich hill
Date
22 January 1676
Creator
John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719, British) , Astronomer
Object type
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Manuscript page number
f12 p1r
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 305mm
width (page): 196mm
width (page): 196mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Ground-plans of the Greenwich observatory in John Flamsteed’s letter to Richard Towneley (1629–1707) of Lancashire, with whom Flamsteed shared a wide range of scientific interests, including improvement of instruments such as the micrometer and clocks. By January 1676, the building of the observatory at Greenwich, which had began in August the previous year, was well under way.
Transcription
According to my promise in my last I here send you a draught of the new building on Greenwich hill done by a scale of 20 foot in the inch. I had designed you a better but had not leasure to perfect it at present, nor to draw a prospect: but hope this will satisfie you till I may have leasure for both
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Related fellows
John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719, British) , Astronomer
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