Two astronomical diagrams
Date
19 November 1702
Creator
John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719, British) , Astronomer
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Manuscript page number
p506r
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Dimensions
height (page): 106mm
width (page): 216mm
width (page): 216mm
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Description
Two astronomical diagrams for assessing the effect of the motion of the Earth on the longitudes, latitudes, Right Ascension and declination of stars. John Flamsteed had written to John Wallis on this topic with a figure (printed in Wallis's Opera mathematica, vol. 3, 701-08), which Jean Dominique commented on in B. de Fontenelle, Histoire de l'Academie royale des sciences... avec les memories de mathematique et de physique, vol. 1 (1702), 177-83. Flamsteed, in his letter to Christopher Wren dated 19 November 1702, commented on Cassini's figures and how he had misunderstood Flamsteed's point.
This volume includes material gathered by Christopher Wren Jr, FRS (1675-1747), relating to his father, Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723), the architect and one of the earliest fellows of the Royal Society.
This volume includes material gathered by Christopher Wren Jr, FRS (1675-1747), relating to his father, Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723), the architect and one of the earliest fellows of the Royal Society.
Object history
Plate 7 from Stephen Wren, Parentalia: Or, Memoirs of the Family of the Wrens (London: T. Osborn and R. Dodsley, 1750), figs 1-2.
Related fellows
John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719, British) , Astronomer
Christopher Wren (1632 - 1723, British) , Architect
Jean Dominique Cassini (1625 - 1712, Italian) , Astronomer, Astronomer
Christopher Wren (1632 - 1723, British) , Architect
Jean Dominique Cassini (1625 - 1712, Italian) , Astronomer, Astronomer
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