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Astronomy

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

Found in 101 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence from E. Eastwood, T.L. Eckersley, and K.G. Emeléus to Edward Appleton, 1946-1948

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.228
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1946-1948

Correspondence from L. Schellbach to Edward Appleton, 1946

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.235
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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.

Dates: 1946

Correspondence from P. Angwin to Edward Appleton, 1951

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Identifier: Coll-37/E.3
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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.

Dates: 1951

Correspondence from R. Naismith to Edward Appleton, 1945-1947

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.234
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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.

Dates: 1945-1947

Correspondence from T.J. van Slooten and F.L. Whipple to Edward Appleton, 1946-1947

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.236
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1946-1947

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.

De affirmanda parallaxi magni orbis, cogitatum Hugenii, June 1693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [15]
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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.

Dates: June 1693

De Heliaco orta Sirii anno ante Christum 2783, a.D. Wills..., 1696

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Identifier: GB 0237 David Gregory Dc.1.75 Folio B [8]
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This paper, says Gregory himself, is for a Doctor Wills at Oxford, who undertakes to give a solstice long before that adduced by Hyparchus.

Dates: 1696

De natura rerum by Isidore of Seville, 12th-13th century

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Identifier: MS 123/ff. 144v-154v
Contents This section contains De natura rerum (About the Nature of Things) by Isidore of Seville, a scholar that lived from around 560 to around 636. This is a work about nature and astronomy. The text is accompanied by diagrams and figures.The Prologue starts on f. 144v. It is titled Incipit prefatio Sancti Ysidori hispalensis episcopi de responsione mundi et astrorum...
Dates: 12th-13th century