| 2 | Creator: | Cassini, Giovanni Domenico, 1625-1712 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Abrégé d'astronomie, 1678-1712
| | | | Dates: | 1678-1712 | | | | Abstract: | This unpublished copy of the 1678 manuscript contains a detailed summary of astronomy from a pre-Newtonian perspective. There are systematic descriptions of planets and stars, distance of planets to the earth, comets, hourly movements of the sun, solar equations, etc. The tables relate to refractions for every place at the horizon, movements of the moon, and other calculations. The plates contain illustrations to the text, one being the moon eclipse of February 13, 1710. | | | | Call #: | Mss.520.9.C27 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Astrometry. | Astronomy -- France -- Observations. | Beyond Early America | Cassini, Giovanni Domenico, 1625-1712 | Comets. | Eclipses. | Illustrations. | Refraction, Astronomical. | Solar system -- Early works to 1800. | Solar system -- Motion in space. | Tables. | |
| 3 | Creator: | Grew, Theophilus,d. 1759. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Tables of the sun and moon fitted to the meridian of Philadephia, [1746-1761], n.d.
| | | | Dates: | n.d. | | | | Abstract: | This item is a book of calculations, including problems in the elements of astronomy; the calculations of lunar eclipses at Philadelphia, 1747-1761, and of solar eclipses in 1744 and 1752; and Halley's tables of the sun and moon. | | | | Call #: | Mss.524.G86t | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Astronomy -- Charts, diagrams, etc. | Eclipses. | Education | Grew, Theophilus,d. 1759. | Science and Technology | Scientific Data | Sketches. | Spherical astronomy. | Tables. | |
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