Letter, from John Flamsteed to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Derby
Reference number: EL/F1/75
Date: 15 November 1671
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Signed autograph
Sends astronomical predictions for the following year entitled 'Lunae ad fixas appulsus visibiles...' (inserted after EL/F1/78b); also sends the diurnal transit of the moon at 'Cor Leonis' for Robert Hooke; states that he has measured the distances of the star cluster Pleiades, that Richard Towneley has done the same in Lancashire, and that he will send calculations of the remaining transits
Read to the Royal Society on 23 November 1671
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- EL/F1/75
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- 15 November 1671
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- 1 page
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John Flamsteed, Letter, from John Flamsteed to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Derby, 15 November 1671, EL/F1/75, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_f1_75/letter-from-john-flamsteed-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-derby, accessed on 25 March 2025
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Henry Oldenburg
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