Janus: The Portsmouth Collection

Manuscripts/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.3979 contains:
Add.3979.1	Letter from John Flamsteed to James Crompton for Isaac Newton
Add.3979.2	Letter from John Flamsteed to James Crompton for Isaac Newton
Add.3979.3	Draft Letter from Sir Isaac Newton to John Flamsteed
Add.3979.4	Letter from Hill to John Flamsteed
Add.3979.5	Draft Letter from John Flamsteed Sir Isaac Newton
Add.3979.6	Letter from John Flamsteed to Isaac Newton
Add.3979.7	Letter from John Flamsteed to Isaac Newton
Add.3979.8	Letter from John Flamsteed to Isaac Newton
Add.3979.9	Letter from John Flamsteed to Isaac Newton
Add.3979.10	Letter from John Flamsteed to Isaac Newton
Add.3979.11	Letter from John Flamsteed, probably to Andrew Glen
See later -->

More information

Please feel free to contact the repository.

The Portsmouth Collection

Title	Letter from Hill to John Flamsteed
Reference	MS Add.3979.4
Covering Dates	29 December 1681 (The date is in the hand of Flamsteed.)
Extent and Medium	f.1 [quarto]; paper

Content and context

Sent by Flamsteed to Newton with MS Add. 3979/9. Nothing is known of Hill except that he was a Canterbury artificer.

Further information

Corr., vol. II, pp.372-373, n.257;

Flamsteed, vol. I, p.784-788, n.403.

Another paper in the hand of Hill, 'Observations of the Comet 1680', is at Add.3965, ff.564-65

Index Terms

No further on-line information.