Astronomy
Found in 101 Collections and/or Records:
Or Ms 398 شرح تذکرة الطوسي Sharḥ Tadhkirat al-Ṭūsī, 1146 A.H., 1733 C.E.
A copy of al-Sayyid al-Sharīf 'Alī al-Jurjānī's (died 816 A.H., 1413 C.E.) Arabic commentary on elements of astronomy by Nasīr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (died 672 A.H., 1274 C.E.). Text and diagrams in red.
Or Ms 417: تسهیل زیج محمّدشاهی Tashīl-i Zīj-i Muḥammad-shāhī, undated (original text compiled 17-18th Cent. C.E.)
Or Ms 729: Pocket Ruzname (almanac) of Şeyh Vefa, c. 1091 A.H., c. 1680 C.E.
Oratio de transitu lucis a [Jupiter] ad [Saturn], 1690
Edinburgh graduation speech, in Gregory's hand, of one William Cooper, concerning light rays passing close by Jupiter and Saturn.
Orbita Planetaria Cassiniana ab Auctore missa 1699, 1699
Jacque Cassini met Gregory in Oxford in March 1699, and gave him this writeup of his father Jean Dominique's famous 1693 planetary orbit. This was the first Gregory had seen of it, and his excited notes append the foot of the document.
Papers in geography, science, and letters, 1743-1783
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Papers of David Gregory
Photographs at Mullard Radioastronomy Observatory, Cambridge, 1957 or after
The material consists of photographs at Mullard Radioastronomy Observatory, Cambridge. The group includes O. R. Frisch and M. Ryle.
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.