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Astronomical tracts with observations by Tycho Brahe and others


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS 57

Held at: Royal Society

Title: Astronomical tracts with observations by Tycho Brahe and others

Date(s): 1585-1596

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 1 volume

Name of creator(s): Brahe | Tycho | 1546–1601 | Danish nobleman
and others

CONTEXT

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CONTENT

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Astronomical tracts with observations by Tycho Brahe and others including:
1. Tychonis Brahe observationes cometae AD 1585 (folio 1)
2. Ejusdem observationes cometae AD 1590 (folio 10)
3. Ejusdem observationes cometae AD 1596 (folio 18)
4. Observations astronomiques faites a la ville de Cartagene des Indes par le Colonel Don Juan de Herrara et Sotomayor (accompanied with a letter to Dr Halley, dated Cartgena des Indes 12 July 1723) Several of these observations have since been published in the Memoirs de l'Academie des Sciences de Paris 1729 page 361, 362-363, 367 (Folio 23).

5. Observationes astronomiques pour la longitude de Cartagene des Indies faites avec le premier satellite de Jupiter l'annee 1723 (Folio 41); 6. Eclipses Solis et Lunae observatae...in oppido S S Cosmae et DamIani 1719-1726, a P Bonaventura Suarez S J (Folio 44); 7. Immersiones et Emersiones Satellitum Iovis observatae in oppido S S Cosmae et Damiani 1720-1726, a P Bonaventure Suarez S J (Folio 46).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: French

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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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Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Items 1, 2 and 3 were were presented to the Royal Society by Sir Isaac Newton on 5 October 1722.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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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.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Eclipses | Astronomical phenomena | Astronomy
Meteorites | Astronomical systems

Personal names
Brahe | Tycho | 1546-1601 | Danish nobleman
Halley | Edmond | 1656-1742 | astronomer

Corporate names

Places