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Bradley Papers, 1705-66

Title: Bradley Papers 1705-66

ArchivalResource: 48 shelfmarks

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Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle: Collection of his papers and letters: 17th cent.County of Cumberland: Papers of Lord Carlisle coucerning his Lord-Lieutenancy of: late 17th cent.Charles II of England: Official papers and letters relating to co. ...

Title: Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle: Collection of his papers and letters: 17th cent.County of Cumberland: Papers of Lord Carlisle coucerning his Lord-Lieutenancy of: late 17th cent.Charles II of England: Official papers and letters relating to co. ... Unspecified

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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Behind the Veil: Documenting African-American Life in the Jim Crow South Records, 1940-1997 and undated, (bulk 1993-1997)

Title: Behind the Veil: Documenting African-American Life in the Jim Crow South Records, 1940-1997 and undated (bulk 1993-1997)

ArchivalResource: 69.9 Linear Feet; ca. 14,018 Items

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James Petiver, FRS, Apothecary to the Charter-House: Miscellaneous correspondence (N.B. Petiver died in April 1718, but letters were written to him up to 12 Febr. 1719.): 1697-1718/9, and n.d.Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet: Original correspondence, chronol...

Title: James Petiver, FRS, Apothecary to the Charter-House: Miscellaneous correspondence (N.B. Petiver died in April 1718, but letters were written to him up to 12 Febr. 1719.): 1697-1718/9, and n.d.Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet: Original correspondence, chronol... Unspecified

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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Servant Indentures, 1750-1754

Title: Servant Indentures 1750-1754

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Royal Observatory, Greenwich. James Bradley Papers (including Nathaniel Bliss Papers), 1723-1804.

Title: James Bradley Papers (including Nathaniel Bliss Papers), 1723-1804.

Contains: A. Observation ledgers, notes, working catalogues, tables, miscellaneous observations, computations, papers on observations, solar eclipses, comets and other astronomical matters, together with some correspondence. B. Documentation of important topics and events, such as: demonstration of the nutation of the Earth's axis of rotation; re-equipment of the Royal Observatory using government funds. C. The following is a list of the names of correspondents and others as they appear in the handlist to this class of papers in RGO Archives. It must be remembered that this is not necessarily an exhaustive list of names as they appear in the papers themselves. Researchers interested in a particular period are invited to write to the RGO Archivist at the above address if they are intersted in particular individuals whose names do not appear below, but who could posibly have been in correspondence with the person or institution responsible for creating the class. Correspondents: R. Bates; Mr. Bevis; N. Bliss; James Bradley; John Bradley; T. Cooke; Copernicus; T. Corbett; Cysali; E. Dacosta; J. Flamsteed; J. Fletcher; C. Green; S. Hales; R. Heaton; T. Hoy; M. Hymondefold; C. Irwing; Mr. Jones; J. Kennedy; Kepler; C. Liber; Lord MacClesfield; Mr. Machin; J. Mackenzie; N. Maskelyne; Mrs. Mathews; Gail Morris; Mr. Napier; Mrs. Paine; J. Periam; J. Pollock; Mr. Rogers; M. Roper; F. Rowden; S. Smedhurst; Dr. Smith; T. Stevenson; W. Wales; W. White; Mrs. Woodham; and T. Wright.

ArchivalResource: 45 pieces.

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Royal Greenwich Observatory. Nevil Maskselyne Papers, ca. 1743-ca. 1822.

Title: Nevil Maskselyne Papers, ca. 1743-ca. 1822.

Includes: A. Observation ledgers; computation books; solar, lunar, and planetary investigations; reductions, various items of correspondence, journals, note-books, accounts, mathematical notes and papers, a manuscript biography of Maskelyne, papers on navigation; chronometer trials; and much miscellaneous material make up this very complete set of this Astronomer Royal's working papers. B. Documentation of important topics and events, such as: the 'Schiehallion Experiment' to ascertain the constant of proportionality in Newton's law of universal gravitation; award of the 'Longitude prize' to the clockmaker John Harrison. C. The following is a list of the names of correspondents and others as they appear in the handlist to this class of papers in RGO Archives. It must be remembered that this is not necessarily an exhaustive list of names as they appear in the papers themselves. Researchers interested in a particular period are invited to write to the RGO Archivist at the above address if they are interested in particular individuals whose names do not appear below, but who could possibly have been in correspondence with the person or institution responsible for creating the class. Correspondents: C. Barton; G. Barlellinni; W. Barrants; R. C. Barnard; W. Bayly; J. Bird; C. Blagden; W. Bligh; N. Bliss; P. Bougeur; James Bradley; Dr. Brinkby; T. Brown; Sir F. Burdett; Burg; R. Burrow; J. Campbell; J. Caneles; H. Cavendish; Claibaut; T. Clapp; Lord Cochrane; R. Coffin; C. Condamine; Coombes; J. Crosley; E. Dacosta; A. Dalambert; F. Drake; G. Dulland; W. Dunkin; J. Earnshaw; G. Eckard; Edward I (King); J. Edwards; Mrs. M. Edwards; L. Euler; R. Fenwick; J. Flamsteed; E. G. Forbes; Dr. Franklin; W. Garrard; Dr. Gauss; George III (King); G. Gilpen; L. Godin; J. Goldenham; W. Gooch; J. Gray; C. Green; Grignions; S. Groombridge; M. Guerrin; C. Haggis; Dr. Halley; T. Hammersly; Mr. Harding; W. Herschel; P. Heywood; S. Hind; J. Hodgeson; Mr. Hollis; J. Horsburgh; W. Howe; Capt. Hubbart; J. Inman; R. Ker; Lacailles; Lalandes; Dr. Layard; J. Mackenzie; W. Manwaring; J. Mapson; W. Marland; W. Marsden; T. Martyn; Baron Maseres; Margaret Maskelyne; N. Maskelyne; Messier; Sir J. Moore; Gail Morris; Sir I. Newton; G. Piazzi; Pingre; J. Pond; Lord Sandwich; B. Workman; and E. Zanotti, among others.

ArchivalResource: 327 pieces.

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Auwers, A. (Arthur), 1838-1915. Papers, 1856-1914.

Title: Papers, 1856-1914.

Manuscripts; calculations made on the basis of Bradley's observations; originals of Bradley's observations; letters.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes.

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Savile Collection, 12th-19th century

Title: Savile Collection 12th-19th century

ArchivalResource: 146 shelfmarks

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Edison Sheet Music Collection, 1830-1958, (bulk 1890-1940)

Title: Edison Sheet Music Collection 1830-1958 (bulk 1890-1940)

The collection consists chiefly of American sheet music published in the United States between the years 1830-1930. While a significant minority of the music in the collection is instrumental music, the vast majority is for voice and piano. Notable in this collection are imprints from California dating from before 1850, first editions by Irving Berlin and others, and many European imprints among the instrumental pieces.

ArchivalResource: circa 13,000 items; 148 containers; 444 linear feet

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Barchas, Cecile M.,. Portrait prints of scientists, 1473-1898.

Title: Portrait prints of scientists, 1473-1898.

Photographic prints from the Samuel I. and Cecile M. Barchas collection include the following scientists: Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, Peter Apian, F. Arago, Aristotle, Jean Sylvain Bailly, Jöns Jakob Berzelius, F.W. Bessel, Johann Elert Bode, Robert Boyle, James Bradley, Tycho Brahe, David Brewster, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Nicolaus Copernicus, Humphry Davy, J.B. Delambre, René Descartes, John Dollond, Leonhard Euler, Michael Faraday, John Flamsteed, M. de Fontenelle, Jean Baptiste Fourier, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph von Fraunhofer, Pierre Gassendi, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Edmond Halley, Caroline Lucretia Herschel, John F. W. Herschel, William Herschel, Christiaan Huygens, Johannes Kepler, J. L. Lagrange, Joseph Jérôme Le Français de Lalande, Pierre Simon Laplace, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, U. J. Le Verrier, Nevil Maskelyne, Gerhard Mercator, Charles Messier, Isaac Newton, W. Olbers, Ptolemy, René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, Angelo Secchi, Edwin A. Stevens. James Watt. One of the prints is unidentified. Biographical sketches from the periodical, The popular science monthly, are about Angelo Secchi, Joseph von Fraunhofer, Caroline Lucretia Herschel; another insert is about David Brewster. Artists and printmakers are also identified. These include: Pierre-Michel Alix, Charles Beaubrun, Julien-Léopold Boilly, Louis, Boilly, Johann Friedrich Bolt, Johann Theodor de Bry, Nicholas Gabriel Dupuis, William Thomas Fry, Jules Gaildrau, Franz Gareis, Johann Elias Haid, Frans Hals, Benjamin Holl, William Holl, Thomas Hudson, Godfrey Kneller, Thomas, Lawrence, James Lonsdale, Frederick Mackenzie, Jean Denis Nargeot, James Posselwhite, Henry Raeburn, Denis Auguste Marie Raffett, John Russell, Edward Scriven, Ambroise Tardieu, James Thomson, Charles Albert Waltner.

ArchivalResource: 78 items (68 prints, 10 p. biographical reprints.

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ROYAL SOCIETY PAPERS. Vol. VIII (ff. 330).(1) Raimond Cap to the Royal Society, on the squaring of the circle; Château Thierry sur Marne, 20 Feb. 1749. French. ff. 1-3. (2) Fulgence Depourier, 'de l'ordre des Augustins,' to the Secretary of the Royal...

Title: ROYAL SOCIETY PAPERS. Vol. VIII (ff. 330).(1) Raimond Cap to the Royal Society, on the squaring of the circle; Château Thierry sur Marne, 20 Feb. 1749. French. ff. 1-3. (2) Fulgence Depourier, 'de l'ordre des Augustins,' to the Secretary of the Royal... Unspecified

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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James Bradley Pennsylvania History Collection, 1773-1782, 1850

Title: James Bradley Pennsylvania History Collection 1773-1782, 1850

Legal documents and published material, including a land purchase agreement for Bedford County, Pennsylvania and a death notice for President Taylor.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (SC)

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Royal Greenwich Observatory. Edmond Halley Papers, 1677-1767.

Title: Edmond Halley Papers, 1677-1767.

Includes observation and calculation books, with some papers on cometary phenomena and assorted tables. A very limited amount of correspondence. Important subjects covered are: lunar observations, 1721-1740; re-equipment of the Royal Observatory using government funds, 1725. Correspondents are: Bianchini, J. Bradley, Copernicus, Cysali, D. Graham, Dr. Halley, Kepler, J.M. Lillee, Maskelyne, P. Miller, G. Morris, Mr. Oughtrod, Ptolemy, J. Senex, and Tychowich.

ArchivalResource: 19 pieces.

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Vol. XXXI (ff. 375). Sept.-Nov. 1786.includes:f. 1 Admiral Philip Affleck, glass manufacturer: Letters to the 1st Earl of Liverpool: 1786-1788. ff. 2, 66 James Macpherson, Translator of Ossian, afterwards Agent for the Nawab of Arcot, and MP for Ca...

Title: Vol. XXXI (ff. 375). Sept.- Nov. 1786.includes:f. 1 Admiral Philip Affleck, glass manufacturer: Letters to the 1st Earl of Liverpool: 1786-1788. ff. 2, 66 James Macpherson, Translator of Ossian, afterwards Agent for the Nawab of Arcot, and MP for Ca... Sep 1786-Nov 1786

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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