Letter, from John Flamsteed to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Derby
Reference number: EL/F1/82
Date: 05 March 1672
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States that he sends an account of observations of Jupiter and explains his method of observing the latitude of the moon by the distance of the fixed star; states that Richard Towneley's micrometer was not easy to use for observing the transit of the moon with the star in Libra, and that his own instrument had not yet been made
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- EL/F1/82
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- 05 March 1672
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- 1 page
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John Flamsteed, Letter, from John Flamsteed to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Derby, 05 March 1672, EL/F1/82, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_f1_82/letter-from-john-flamsteed-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-derby, accessed on 29 April 2025
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