Letter, from John Flamsteed to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Derby
Reference number: EL/F1/78
Date: 23 December 1671
Description
States that he has added the distance of the star cluster Pleiades to his predictions (EL/F1/78a for new predictions; initial predictions inserted after EL/F1/78b); has not been able to make astronomical observations because of the weather; wonders if there are any satellites around Jupiter
Note reads: 'Not to be en'd [in the Letter Book]'
- Reference number
- EL/F1/78
- Earliest possible date
- 23 December 1671
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- 7 pages
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- Manuscript
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John Flamsteed, Letter, from John Flamsteed to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Derby, 23 December 1671, EL/F1/78, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_f1_78/letter-from-john-flamsteed-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-derby, accessed on 24 March 2025
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Henry Oldenburg
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John Flamsteed
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