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Manuscripts/MS Add.9597 contains:
1	Items pertaining to the collection itself
2	Papers of Sir Isaac Newton
3	Printed Matter
4	Algebra
5	Arithmetic
6	Astronomy
7	Chronology
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9	Fluxions
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11	Geometry
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Title	Astronomy
Reference	MS Add.9597/6
Covering Dates	c 1650-cc 1800

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Astronomy

Manuscripts/MS Add.9597/6 contains:

Nicolai Mercatoris Astrologia Rationalis.
ff.115 [quarto]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

David Gregory's Astronomy.
ff.85 [octavo]; paper.

? 1700-? 1750

David Gregory's Astronomy.
ff.78 [octavo]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750

Of the Motion of the Planets.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.25 [mixed]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Mr John Machin's Solar Tables.
ff.8 [quarto]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750

Of the Diurnal Motion of the Earth. MS copy of a lecture by William Jones.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.17 [quarto]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

To determine the true place of the sun's apogee, by means of an exact observation of the true place of the sun, when not far distant from the apsides. Problem, solution and two examples.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.4 [quarto]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Tables on the Solar Eclipse.
Creator: Bliss, Nathaniel, 1700-1764, astronomer.
ff.4 [quarto]; paper.

c 1720-c 1760

Practical Rules In the Use of the Tables for the Fixed Stars.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.7 [quarto]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Concerning the Fixed Stars. "A Copy of one of Mr Jones's Lectures." Not autograph.
ff.15 [quarto]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

"Concerning the Table of the Obliquity of the Ecliptic" and other astronomical papers.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.18 [mostly octavo]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Concerning the Aberration of the fixed Stars arising from the motion of Light & the motion of the Earth on it's Orbit.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.12 [quarto]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Hypothesis nova Martis et Canones eidem accomodati, exquibus cum aequales, cum apparentes eiusdem motus, ad quaevis a Christo nato tempora praeterita, presentia, vel futura facile Colliguntur. Unknown hand.
ff.11 [folio]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750

Astronomical Lecture.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.9 [quarto]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

A Table Containing the Astronomical Elements of the Theories of the Sun and Planets According to the System of Copernicus.
ff.2 [quarto]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750

Notes on Proposition 26 of the Principia.
ff.2 [folio]; paper.

c 1687-c 1750

"The Keplerian Problem" and other notes.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.21 [mixed]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Of Kepler's Problem.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.43 [mostly quarto]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Miscellaneous Astronomical Notes.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.13 [mixed]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Astronomical Notes.
ff.5 [mixed]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750

2: Of Eclipses of the Sun.
ff.31 [octavo]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750

Astronomical Problems.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.13 [mixed]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

1: To find, by an Universal rule, very nearly, the place of a Comet or Planet revolving in an Eliptic Orbit, from the mean Anomaly being given.
ff.12 [folio]; paper.

c 1700-c 1749

2: To find, by an universal rule, very nearly, the place of a Comet or Planet revolving in an elliptic orbit, from the mean Anomaly being given.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.5 [quarto]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

3: Concerning the equations for the motions of the planets and comets.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.6 [quarto]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

4: Kepler's Problem resolved. "For Mr Jones.".
ff.4 [mixed]; paper.

c 1710-c 1750

5: A General solution of Kepler's Problem.
ff.4 [quarto]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750

6: The Equations for the Motions of the Planets and Comets.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.30 [quarto]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

7: Copy of Letter from William Starrat to Edmund Halley, suggesting solutions to Kepler's problem.
Creator: Starrat, William.
ff.8 [folio]; paper.

c 1724

8: On Newton's Principia, Proposition 31. Add. 9597/6/23-31 form a numbered sequence.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.9 [quarto]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

9: Various methods.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.12 [mixed]; paper.

c 1710- c 1749

Astronomical Propositions. Two drafts of a treatise in an unknown hand. The rough draft has corrections in the hand of William Jones, which are incorporated into the fair copy.
ff.10 [octavo]; paper.

c 1700-c 1749

Of the Calculation of the Places of the Planets. "By W[illiam] J[ones]." Unknown hand with lots of crossing out, and some corrections in the hand of William Jones.
ff.25 [large octavo]; paper.

c 1710-c 1750

To determine the true place of the sun's apogee, by means of an exact observation of the sun's true place, when not far distant from the apsides.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.2 [quarto]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Of Eclipses of the Moon.
ff.49 [octavo]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750

Of the Distances of the Fixed Stars. Unknown hand, with corrections in the hand of William Jones.
ff.10 [octavo]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750

Astronomical Tables. Miscellaneous tables on astronomical subjects.
ff.25 [quarto]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750

Of the Diurnal Motion of the Earth.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.16 [quarto]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Some Considerations Concerning the Improvement of Telescopes.
ff.4 [quarto]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750

Elements of Astronomy.
ff.27 [quarto]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750

Of Astronomy (Oughtred).
ff.52 [quarto]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750

Condamine's Observations at Quito. Possibly autograph. Includes a letter from Bouguer and Condamine to Edmund Halley.
Creator: Condamine, Charles Marie de la, 1701-1774, mathematician and astronomer.
ff.13 [quarto]; paper.

20 November 1737-May 1738

Bouguer's Observations at Quito. Possibly autograph.
Creator: Bouguer, Pierre, 1698-1758, mathematician and astronomer.
ff.14 [quarto]; paper.

c 1738

Of the Aberration of the Fixed Stars. 'By Mr Bradley.' Presumably James Bradley (1693-1762.) Copy in the hand of William Jones. Bound treatise with other loose papers.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.44 [quarto]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

"Theoria Lunae Rationalis" and "Lunar Tables". Full title on f.2: Theoria Lunae Rationalis or A Theory of the Moon Upon Elliptical Principles By which may be explained The apparent inequalities in her motion and From whence allso may be obtained A rational calculus for her place. Here are allso added Lunar Tables calculated from this Theory with Precepts How to use them written by J.P. Biester. M.D.
ff.50 [quarto]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750

Miscellaneous Astronomical Notes. Includes some Halley autographs.
Creator: Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742, astronomer.
ff.13 [mostly folio]; paper.

6 July 1721

Lectures on Astronomy. Pages marked 85-119.
ff.38 [quarto]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750

Astronomic Miscellanies. Loose papers, partly in the hand of William Jones.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.34 [mixed]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Latin Treatise on the Motion of the Planets. Unknown hands. ff.43-44 are a loose bifolium containing an English translation of the opening.
ff.44 [quarto]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750

The Memorials of Mr Bougier and Mr Condamine.
ff.43 [quarto]; paper.

c 1720-c 1800

Lectures in Astronomy. Copy of a treatise by John Keill.
ff.182 [quarto]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750

Dr Bradley's Tables for Jupiter's Satellites.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.12 [quarto]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750

Huygens's table.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.2 [quarto]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750

Questiones aliquot physicae. Fragment and diagram. Unknown hand.
f.1 [quarto]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750

On the Frame of the World. Unknown hand.
ff.12 [quarto]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750

Form of the Earth. Refutation of Eisensmith and Cassini.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
f.2 [long quarto]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

10: Miscellaneous Astronomical Notes.
ff.11 [mostly quarto]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750

"Christophori Wren / Londini in Collegio Greshamensi Astronomiae Professoris / De corpore Saturni eiusque Phasibus / Hypothesis". Unknown hand.
ff.6 [quarto]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750

List of Constellations.
f.1 [nonstandard]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750

Astronomical Notes. "The Transit of the Moon and of a known fixed star being given, to find her right ascension.". "Precepts for computing the places of the Sun and Moon.". "To find the Parallax and Diameter of the Moon.". "To Compute an Occultation of a Star by the Moon.".
ff.4 [large quarto]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750

Miscellaneous Mathematical Notes. Some in the hand of Edmund Halley.
Creator: Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742, astronomer.
ff.27 [mixed]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750