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Astronomy

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Found in 102 Collections and/or Records:

Notes and sayings connected to decision-making, c1868

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/2
Scope and Contents Notes and sayings connected to decision-making possibly collected from a Mrs MacDonald [identity and location unspecified] or inspired by a conversation with her recorded as, 'Mrs MacDon[ald] said the caus[es] were mom[ents] of folly. I doubt if were not re[a]s[on] as g[rea]t mo[ments] of folly every day.' He refers to the remark made by Captain Thomas about [the lazine[ss] of people to invest[ing] in his work of the Outer Hebri[de]s'. The quotes which follow relate to the farmer's...
Dates: c1868
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Notes on stars and accompanying verse, 29 October 1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/109
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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'.

Dates: 29 October 1872
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Notice of meeting to discuss observations of the Giacobinids, 1946

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.225
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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.

Dates: 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Meteor Trails / Drafts and notes

Nouvelle ... geometrique et divers les trouver les apoges, les excentricites, et les anomalies du mouvement des planetes per M Cassini, c1700

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Identifier: GB 0237 David Gregory Dc.1.75 Folio B [9]
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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.

Dates: c1700
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio B

Observ: Eclipsos Lunaris Oxon 19 Octr 1697 et [Mercury] in [the Sun] 24 Oct 1697, October 1697, with 2 apparently attached documents from 17041693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [28]
Scope and Contents Two straightforward records of planetary eclipses, but meant, on palaeographic evidence, to be kept with a draft and a fair copy of a subsequent Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society article [Vol. XXIV, No. 293, for September-October 1704, p1704] about the Cassini curve, a model of how a periodic comet probably orbits. Folding and fading of these documents suggest that they were inserted not long after David Gregory generated his index of Quarto A (which he drew up around 1700)....
Dates: October 1697, with 2 apparently attached documents from 17041693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Observatio Eclipsis lunaris Oxonii, May 1696

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [1]
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Tabulated observational data of the 1696 lunar eclipse which Gregory watched from Oxford.

Dates: May 1696
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

On Cassini's orbit, 10 September 1704

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E [050]
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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.

Dates: 10 September 1704
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio E

Oratio de transitu lucis a [Jupiter] ad [Saturn], 1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [193]
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Edinburgh graduation speech, in Gregory's hand, of one William Cooper, concerning light rays passing close by Jupiter and Saturn.

Dates: 1690
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Orbita Planetaria Cassiniana ab Auctore missa 1699, 1699

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [116]
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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.

Dates: 1699
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Papers in geography, science, and letters, 1743-1783

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Identifier: Coll-205/2/3 (Dc.1.59)
Scope and Contents Extracts: some classes of herbs; Fundamenta Agroslographia (1781); Shell marle (1783); Plants growing on Inch Colm; Observable stars, with map of certain constellations (on reverse of disused accounts work); alchemy (for one Mr Mackenzie); balloon trips in France; Fortification (with drawing), from Gentleman's Magazine, 1743; Forsler's round-the-world trip, transcribed ca. 1780; Phlogisticated air, by Mr Scheele, transcribed 1782; What became of various academics by 1784; The downfall of...
Dates: 1743-1783
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Dr. John Walker / Papers on History, Geography, Science, Natural History, Parish Management and other matters