Astronomy
Found in 101 Collections and/or Records:
Physical Astronomy, c1804
Volume consists of lecture notes in astronomy.
Physical Astronomy, c1780-c1803
Volume contains manuscript notes on physical astronomy, which is to say, the governing laws of planetary motion, with numerous diagrams and tables.
Quarto A, c1680-c1708
Reports by J.S. Hey and others, 1944-1946
Reports by J.S. Hey and others. The material is on meteors and it includes O.R.G. Report 348 [Army Operational Research Group] describing observations October 1944-April 1946.
Shelf list, s.d.
Part of what appears to be a shelf list of some library's holdings in astronomy.
Student notes on natural philosophy taken by George Dalgliesh
This notebook contains lectures on the works of Aristotle, dictated by Thomas Craufurd, Regent of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, and taken down by student George Dalgliesh. The lectures cover the third and fourth years of Dalgliesh’s degree, and, besides logic and metaphysics, deal with scientific subjects such as physics, astronomy, and anatomy. The notes are embellished with humorous doodles.
Summarium nostra Astronomiae Phys: et Geom:, c1690
One-page summary of Gregory's major textbook.
Table of corrections, c1704
Corrigenda, probably for the Astronomiae.
'The Radar detection of meteor trails', c. 1946
'The Radar detection of meteor trails'. The material consists of a 3 page typescript draft and a copy of the published paper, dated 1946.
Varia positiones ... in prob: Pappi, c1703
Latin and English notes on Pappus, probably in connection with his book project on the ancient geometers.
The third side of this item is unrelated, a copy of an 1707 letter from Gregory, Christopher Wren, Isaac Newton, and others, to Danish astronomer Olav Roemer, concerning the Astronomiae, and accuracy of certain calculations and observations by Flamsteed and Tycho Brahe. The Tycho ms. is probably the 1627 Tabulae Rudolphinae, translated by Kepler.