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Sharp, Abraham (1651-1742)


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

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

See MS/243

Publication note:

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.


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Mathematics

Personal names
Sharp | Abraham | 1651-1742 | mathematician

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