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

Found in 908 Collections and/or Records:

Data, notes, charts, calculations, by Edward Appleton and other , 1935-1951

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.93
Scope and Contents

Data, notes, charts, calculations, by Edward Appleton and others. The material mainly relates to Flayer 'Jumps' and the data runs from 1935-1951.

Dates: 1935-1951

Data on monthly mean values at Slough, 1943-1950

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.92
Scope and Contents

Data on monthly mean values at Slough, dated 1943-1950. The material contains monthly mean values for several stations, 1943.

Dates: 1943-1950

Data on sunspot numbers, c. 1935-1962

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Identifier: Coll-37/F.54
Scope and Contents

The material consists of data on sunspot numbers, mainly of sunspot cycles at various stations. The data covers. 1935-1962 with some charts undated. It includes some work by C.P. Bell

Dates: c. 1935-1962

Data, photographs, etc. sent by R. Naismith to Edward Appleton from Slough, c. 1944-1949

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.408
Scope and Contents

Data, photographs, etc. sent by R. Naismith to Edward Appleton from Slough. The material is similar to that with the correspondence in Coll-37/C.407.

Dates: c. 1944-1949

Data, tabulating monthly medians of fF2, 1944-1958

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Identifier: Coll-37/F.30
Scope and Contents

The material consists of a large hardcover spiral-bound folder of data, tabulating monthly medians of fF2 from several observatories over several years. Composite tables for 1953 and 1954 appear on the front pages. Dates covered are 1944-1958.

Dates: 1944-1958

De affirmanda parallaxi magni orbis, cogitatum Hugenii, June 1693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [15]
Scope and Contents

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 Antlia Pneumatica ..., 1681

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [9]
Scope and Contents

Notes from a trip to London in May and early June of 1681. Gregory saw Boyle's pneumatic pump (an 'antlia' is a siphon) and a method of making 'leaves' with molten glass and water. One Mr Lamb discussed copper engraving with him. He saw Newton's reflecting telescope in Gresham College.

Dates: 1681

De gyratione Globorum de collisione mutua Probl: Halleianum 3, c January 1695

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [7]
Scope and Contents

Treatment of Sir Edmond Halley's method of finding the rotary motions produced in two spheres by an oblique impact. Appears to have been written in a hand other than David Gregory's, [Halley's?] though the title is clearly in his.

Dates: c January 1695

De resolutione equationum cubicarum, 1684-1696

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [20]
Scope and Contents

Notes on a universal theorem on the forces on inclined planes, possibly part of his notes on Huygen's Horologium Oscillatorium, now lost.

Dates: 1684-1696

'Declination Sq (γ) 1948-62', 1948-1962

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Identifier: Coll-37/F.58
Scope and Contents

The material consists of a folder created by Edward Appleton entitled, 'Declination Sq (γ) 1948-62', containing extensive data and curves for various sunspot periods, and including work on the elimination of seasonal anomaly. It includes a 1 page manuscript note by Appleton.

Dates: 1948-1962