HAMILTON AND GREVILLE PAPERS. Vol. X (ff. 109). Miscellaneous papers mainly belonging to the Hon. Charles Francis Greville:-(1) Scientific commonplace books, 17th cent., consisting chiefly of an abstract of Ioannes Magirus, Physiologiae Peripateticae... 1600-1812

Royal Observatory, Greenwich

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The Royal Observatory dates its foundation from two warrants issued under the name of Charles II. On 4 March 1675 John Flamsteed was appointed 'royal observator' to the King, and on the following 22 June another warrant authorised the construction of 'a small observatory within our royal park at Greenwich'. The first warrant stated that Flamsteed was 'to apply himself...so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places'. The second warrant gave the purpose of the constructi...

Greville, Charles Francis, Hon, MP

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The Royal Society (active 1660)

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Troughton, Edward, scientific instrument-maker

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Magirus, Joannes, MD

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