Astronomy
Found in 101 Collections and/or Records:
Notes on stars and accompanying verse, 29 October 1872
Notes on stars including that Mainneag or Maidneag is the morning star, that 'Grioglachan gets its course on S[aint] Michael & loses it on new years night' and that 'An t-Iasgair' is the star of the East at night. There is also a short verse beginning 'Ni Ri Eangain 'sa 3 len'.
Notice of meeting to discuss observations of the Giacobinids, 1946
Notice of meeting to discuss observations of the Giacobinids [a meteor shower, now known as the October Draconids] held at Royal Astronomical Society, dated 13 December 1946. The material includes 6 pages of manuscript notes and a typescript account of papers and proceedings by J.S. Hey.
Nouvelle ... geometrique et divers les trouver les apoges, les excentricites, et les anomalies du mouvement des planetes per M Cassini, c1700
A transcription of a 1669 article by Jean Domenique Cassini in the Journal des Scavans. This is Cassini's much-examined method of determining a planet's position in an elliptical orbit.
Observ: Eclipsos Lunaris Oxon 19 Octr 1697 et [Mercury] in [the Sun] 24 Oct 1697, October 1697, with 2 apparently attached documents from 17041693
Observatio Eclipsis lunaris Oxonii, May 1696
Tabulated observational data of the 1696 lunar eclipse which Gregory watched from Oxford.
On Cassini's orbit, 10 September 1704
A draft, on the eve of the publication of the Astronomiae, of a discussion in proposition 8 of Cassini's orbit, an apparent compromise between the true and approximate systems.
Or Ms 170: شرح تذكرة الطوسى Sharḥ tadhkirat al-Ṭūsī, 1146 A.H., 1733 C.E.
A commentary on the Tadhkirah, a treatise on the elements of Astronomy of the famous Khwājah Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 672 A.H., 1273 C.E.), by Al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī (d. 816 A.H., 1413 C.E.), who compiled it in 811 A.H. (1408 C.E.). It is divided into four chapters.
Contains numerous neat diagrams in colour.
Or Ms 260: رساله درعلمِ نجوم Risālah dar ‘ilm-i nujūm, undated
A treatise on astronomy; neither preface nor author's name is given. Numerous tables in red ink.
Or Ms 396: تحریر المجستي Taḥrīr al-Mijistī, 1011 A.H., 1602 C.E.
A slightly defective copy of Nasīr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (died 672 A.H., 1274 C.E.) edition of the Arabic version of Almagest by Claudius Ptolemy (c.100–170 C.E.), a 2nd-century Greek-language treatise on mathematics and astronomy concerning the planetary paths and motions of the stars.
The present copy contains many astronomical tables and diagrams; headings in red; an innumerable amount of glosses on the margin.