Astronomical tracts with observations by Tycho Brahe and others

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0117 MS 57
Held at	: Royal Society   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://royalsociety.org/collections/ ›
Full 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
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

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Content

Scope and content/abstract:

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 & Use

Language/scripts of material:
French

System of arrangement:

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

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

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.