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Astronomy

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 72 Collections and/or Records:

A Jacobo Cassini quaerendum, 1698

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [67]
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Things Gregory wished to discuss with Jacques Cassini, son of Jean Dominique, deviser of the famous curve, in his upcoming trip to England in 1698.

Dates: 1698

A Prognostication concerning the Frost by Monsieur Cassini the French King's Astrologer, 1697

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio B [30]
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A scurrilous pamphlet probably directed, according to Gregory's marginalia, at Flamsteed, by one "Charles Bernard Chirurgein".

Dates: 1697

Adnotata Phys: a D. Boyleo 1691 et ab Fatio, 1691

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [86]
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Notes on conversations with Boyle and Fatio, including the former's notions on the quantity of motion in bodies rotated about their own axis, and the latter's theory of gravity.

Dates: 1691

Astronomiae manuscript, 3 June 1702

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E [85]
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Part of the package shipped off to the printer.

Dates: 3 June 1702

Astronomiae Physicae et Geometricae Elementa, 28 February 1698

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [43]
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Notes from a London meeting with Sir Isaac Newton on a revised plan for the Astronomiae physicae et geometricae elementa, (1702), Gregory's most important work. An erratum lies at the foot of this document, unrelated to it or to any of the other things on the sheet (which have their own entries in Gregory's index): a jotting about refraction, crystals, and cataracts of the eye. This is dated London, 30 May 1708.

Dates: 28 February 1698

Astronomy, c1780-c1803

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Identifier: Coll-204/10
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Notes and sketches on the rudiments of astronomy.

Dates: c1780-c1803

Catalogus librorum non videram 1692, 1692

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [44]
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Ersatz title is "Memorandum to Dr Gray to pick up as he finds opportunity these books". They are partial titles, numbering about a dozen, covering subjects as divers as optics, astronomy, and gardening.

Dates: 1692

Celestial observations, 6 May 1696

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E [82]
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Tabulations of an evening's heavenly observation. The movement of something in the constellation of Leo appears to be the subject.

Dates: 6 May 1696

Corrigenda to the Astronomiae, 1698-1699

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [56(3)]
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Editorial issues in Gregory's major textbook.

Dates: 1698-1699

Cum in astronomicis..., s.d.

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E [013]
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A short musing, in an unfamiliar hand, on the nomenclature of physics, (natural) philosophy, and astronomy.

Dates: s.d.