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Note on Flamsteed's Lunar Tables

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Owen Gingerich  and
Barbara Welther
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The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , November 1974 , pp. 257 - 258
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Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1974

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References

1 Jeremiae Horroccii … opera posthuma; viz. astronomia Kepleriana, defensa & promota … In cake adjiciunter Johannis Flamstedii … numeri ad lunae theoriam Horroccianam, ed. Wallis, John (London, 1673), pp. 481–2.Google Scholar Some copies have the variant title Opuscula astronomica.

2 Published in SirMoore, Jonas, A new systeme of the mathematicks (London, 1681).Google Scholar The tables are on pp. 95–7.

3 Boulliau, Ismael, Astronomia Philolaica fundamenta clarius explicata et asserta (Paris, 1657).Google Scholar

4 Mercator, Nicolas, Hypothesis astronomica nova, et consensus eius cum observationibus (London, 1664).Google Scholar

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6 Based on the equations given in Gaythorpe, , Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Ixxxv (1925), 858–65CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and Journal of the British Astronomical Association, lxvii (1957), 134–44.Google Scholar

7 Observations of the Royal Astronomers, published on microfilm by the British Public Records Office (London, 1969)Google Scholar; Flamsteed notebooks, vol. xxxvi, 85.