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Astronomy notebook, 1730 Digital

Item — Box: 1Identifier: HUM 312
Scope and Contents: Volume containing Holyoke’s handwritten and illustrated manuscript copies of the works of English astronomers John Flamsteed (1646-1719) and James Pound (1669-1724) and English mathematician Robert Smith (1689-1768), as well as an almanac he authored himself. Inscribed on a blank page at the front of the volume is Edwardi Holyoke Liber 1730. The first part consists of Flamsteed’s The doctrine of the sphere, published in 1680; and Pound’s New and accurate tables...