Astronomy
Found in 101 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence from E. Eastwood, T.L. Eckersley, and K.G. Emeléus to Edward Appleton, 1946-1948
The material consists of correspondence from E. Eastwood to Edward Appleton, dated 1946; correspondence from T. L. Eckersley to Edward Appleton, dated 1948 including a draft letter for publication in Nature; and correspondence from K.G. Emeléus to Edward Appleton, dated 1947.
Correspondence from L. Schellbach to Edward Appleton, 1946
Correspondence from L. Schellbach to Edward Appleton. The material includes statements by observers of the meteoritic fall and fragment recovered at Grand Canyon, Arizona, October 1946.
Correspondence from P. Angwin to Edward Appleton, 1951
Correspondence from P. Angwin to Edward Appleton, dated 1951. The material includes a note on Radio Astronomy in the South Bank exhibition at the Festival of Britain.
Correspondence from R. Naismith to Edward Appleton, 1945-1947
Correspondence from R. Naismith to Edward Appleton, dated 1945-1947. The material includes graphs, research data from Slough and photographs. Some of the correspondence refers to other research projects in hand, and includes notes by Appleton, letters from others, etc.
Correspondence from T.J. van Slooten and F.L. Whipple to Edward Appleton, 1946-1947
The material consists of correspondence from T.J. van Slooten to Edward Appleton, dated 1946 and from F.L. Whipple to Edward Appleton dated 1946-1947. The correspondence from Whipple includes data.
Corrigenda to the Astronomiae, 1698-1699
Editorial issues in Gregory's major textbook.
Cum in astronomicis..., s.d.
A short musing, in an unfamiliar hand, on the nomenclature of physics, (natural) philosophy, and astronomy.
De affirmanda parallaxi magni orbis, cogitatum Hugenii, June 1693
A transcription of Christiaan Huygen's argument that because stars' observed radii are so insensibly small, the diameter of the earth's orbit relative to the stars' position is also insensible, and thus the parallax measurement, which ought to prove or disprove the Copernican layout of the heavens, is useless.
De Heliaco orta Sirii anno ante Christum 2783, a.D. Wills..., 1696
This paper, says Gregory himself, is for a Doctor Wills at Oxford, who undertakes to give a solstice long before that adduced by Hyparchus.