Box 1
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Astronomy notebook, circa 1766-1769 Digital
FOUND IN:
Harvard University Archives
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Collection:
Caleb Gannett collection
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1Identifier: HUM 314
Scope and Contents:
Notebook contains transcriptions by Caleb Gannett from Edmund Halley's Astronomical tables with precepts, both in English and Latin. It is possible he started the notebook while he was a graduate student at Harvard. Includes several hand drawn diagrams of projections of eclipses in Cambridge; formulas to calculate solar and lunar eclipses, the vernal equinox, and the summer solstice in 1766; and examples for determining the placement of planets in 1769.