Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.17412

    Spherical triangles

    Date
    31 March 1702
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p3
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 292mm
    width (page): 179mm
    Subject
    Description
    Spherical triangles alongside notes by Abraham Sharp on the cover of a letter to him from John Flamsteed dated 31 March 1702.

    Abraham Sharp (1653-1742) was Flamsteed's assistant in 1684, and also in 1688-91. From 1694, he ran a family estate at Little Horton, near Bradford (see Correspondence of Flamsteed, ed. by Forbes et al., vol. 3, p. 968).
    Object history
    MS/798 is a collection of letters by John Flamsteed and his wife, and by Mr Crosthwait, to Abraham Sharp between the years 1702 and 1730.
    Related fellows
    John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719, British) , Astronomer
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