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Valleteau de Chabresy, T. R.
GB 0120 MSS.4898-4900 · Late 18th century

'Leçons sur l'astronomie sphérique', illustrated by numerous pen-drawn diagrams and figures. The MS. is written with very wide margins, and contains the complete course of 54 lessons.

Chabresy , T R , Valleteau de
Notes on astronomy 1888-1903
GB 0120 MSS.3694, 3695 · Collection · [1905]

Notes on astronomy, 1888-1903. The date 1905 occurs on p. 173, and the eclipse of that year is mentioned on p. 1214: on p. 1213 the year 1910 is spoken of in the future tense.

Unknown
Herschel family, astronomers
GB 0120 MSS.7867-7868 · 18th century-19th century

Letters to and from various members of the Herschel family. MS.7867 contains material relating to Sir William Herschel (1738-1822), Caroline Lucretia Herschel (1750-1848) and Alexander Stewart Herschel (1836-1907); MS.7868 centres on Sir John Frederick William Herschel (1792-1871).

Herschel , Sir , William , 1738-1822 , Knight , astronomer and musician Herschel , Caroline Lucretia , 1750-1848 , astronomer Herschel , Sir , John Frederick William , 1792-1871 , 1st Baronet , astronomer Herschel , Alexander Stewart , 1836-1907 , astronomer
Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642)
GB 0120 MSS.292-299 and 2460-2462 · 1629-[1930]

Official documents and letters relating to Galileo, some in transcription, 1629-[1930].

Various
Coppieters, Carel
GB 0120 MSS.1872-1876 · 1795

Notes of lectures in Latin at the University of Louvain on Astronomy, Physics, Metaphysics, and Ethics: taken down by Carel Coppieters. The first three volumes are extra-illustrated with engraved folding plates of scientific diagrams, figures, etc.: there are also a few pen-drawn figures. Vol. I Tractatus de Astronomia Sphaerica et theoretica, nec non de Geographia (1 l. + 131 pp. + 49 ll.). II Tractatus de motu, dictante pro parte Domino Ledoux...pro parte Domino Wittenbercq (i.e. Louis Joseph Wittenbercq [1767-1798]) (121 pp. + lxiv pp.). III Tractatus de elementis, igne, aëre et acqua (50 pp. + 6 ll. + 64 pp. + 11 ll. + 37 pp. + xxiv pp.). IV Tractatus de metaphysica, dictante D. Verrueghen (45 pp. + 55 pp. + 60 pp. + lxiv pp.). V Philosophia moralis (59 pp. + xviii pp.). Produced in Louvain.

Coppieters , Carel , 1795 , medical student
GB 0120 MSS.1639-1640 · 1776

Two volumes entilted 'Institutionum Physicae particularis pars prima [et secunda]'. The first volume is illustrated by many inserted pen-drawn astronomical and other diagrams and figures: the second by three anatomical drawings of the cerebrum, the internal organs of a man, and of the eye. Vol. I. 'De corporibus inanimatis': Vol. II. 'De viventibus'. At the end of Vol. I is the inscription 'Proeunte D. Josepho Cyrillo haec anno aere vulgaris 1776 scripsi ego Januarius Pelliccia in Seminario Aversano'. Produced in Aversa.

Cyrillus , Josephus
GB 0120 MSS.7038 & 8316 · c 1800-1937

Papers of Jean-Baptiste Biot, c 1800-1937, including correspondence and a translation of Biot's Memoir on the Circular Zodiac of Denderah.

Biot , Jean-Baptiste , 1774-1862 , scientist