IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS 798
Held at: Royal Society
Title: Sharp, Abraham (1651-1742)
Date(s): 1701-1719
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: Unknown
Name of creator(s): Sharp | Abraham | 1651-1742 | mathematician
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1653; assistant to the Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed, at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, 1684-1685, 1688 and 1690; clerkship in the King's shipyard at Portsmouth, 1691; returned to Little Horton, 1694, here he pursued mathematics, astronomy, and instrument making; died, 1742.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
A collection of letters to Abraham Sharp between the years 1701-2 and 1719.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
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Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.
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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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ALLIED MATERIALS
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Related material:
See MS/243
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.