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RGO Archives/RGO 1 contains:
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42 Lunar calculations and letters
43 Letter book
44 Draft treatises and notes
45 Notes on solar and lunar data
46 Compilation of tables
47 Compilation of tables
48 Lunar and planetary tables and calculations
49 Solar, lunar and Jovian tables
50 Miscellaneous tables
51 Book of calculations
52 Book of calculations
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Papers of John Flamsteed

Title Compilation of tables
Reference RGO 1/47
(former reference: A1/67)
Covering Dates circa 1700
Extent and Medium 1 volume
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A compilation entitled 'Tables of the Motions of Jupiter's Satellites' on the front cover, and 'Liber Tabularum' ('Book of Tables') by the compiler, 74 folios. There are tables of Jupiter's satellites (2v-20v, 35v) and of Jupiter (28r-30v, 36v); tables of tides (21v-22r); ballistic data (22v-23r); tables of the equation of time (23v-25v, 31r); nonagesimal tables (25v-27v); ecliptic declinations by Abraham Sharp (32v-33v); solar places for 1726 (36r); tables of the equation of light, with instructions (37r, 40v-45r); unfinished tables of parallaxes (37v-38r); a table of refractions (38v); and scattered rough notes. Some of the writing is in Flamsteed's hand, but most of the items are in other hands. The papers are undated, but originate from circa 1700 or later.

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Sharp, Abraham (1651-1742) mathematician
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