CudworthW., Life and correspondence of Abraham Sharp, the Yorkshire mathematician and astronomer, and assistant of Flamsteed; with memorials of his family and associated families (London, 1889).
2.
BailyF., “A Catalogue of the Positions (in 1690) of 564 Stars observed by Flamsteed, but not inserted in his British Catalogue; together with some Remarks on Flamsteed's Observations”, Memoirs of the [Royal] Astronomical Society, iv (1831), 129–64, p. 131.
3.
ForbesE. G. (ed.), The Gresham Lectures of John Flamsteed (London, 1975).
4.
Flamsteed's extant letters are currently being collated by the writer with a view to publication in three volumes, and Mansell Ltd London have undertaken to publish them.
5.
BailyF., An account of the Revd. John Flamsteed (London, 1835), 22.
6.
The first hint of this is found in the letter from Flamsteed to Oldenburg, 13 May 1671, published in HallA. Rupert and HallMarie Boas (eds), The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, viii (Madison, Milwaukee and London, 1971), 47.
7.
OldenburgH. (ed.), Philosophical transactions, ii, no. 29 (1667), 541–4.
8.
Ibid., i, no. 25 (1667), 457–8.
9.
Flamsteed's prognostication of this event was published in ibid., no. 86 (1672), 5040–2, the observations and results being duly reported in ibid., no. 89 (1672), 5118–24.
10.
These are identifiable with the stars numbered 26 and 27 in the earlier of the two papers cited on p. 5042 of ref. 9 above.
11.
Ibid. The right ascensions and declinations derived from Tycho's observations are stated as 11°44′00”, 3°58′0”S. and 12°12′0”, 4°10′30”S. respectively.
12.
Ioanni Heckeri ephemerides motuum coelestium ab 1666 ad 1680, ex observationibus correctis Tychonis Brahe et Io. Kepleri hypothesibus physicis, etc. (Gedani, 1662).
13.
WallisJohn (ed.), Jeremiae Horroccii … Opera posthuma (Londini, 1673), 443–64.
14.
Royal Greenwich Observatory (R.G.O.) MSS, P.R.O. 38, f.22r.
15.
FlamsteedJohn, Historia coelestis Britannica, i (London, 1725), 17 (entry for Tuesday 22 October 1672).
16.
Philosophical transactions, i, no. 21 (1667), 381–3.
17.
“Observation d'une Étoile nouvellement découverte proche la Constellation du Cygne”, Journal des sçavans, 22 juin 1671 (Amsterdam, 1677), 631–8.
Johannis Hevelii Mercurius in Sole visus Gedani … 1661 … 3 Maji St. n …, cui annexa est, Venus in Sole pariter visa, Anno 1639, d. 24 Nov. St. V. Liverpoliae, a Jeremia Horroxio: Etc. (Gedani, 1662), 146–71.
20.
Royal Society (R.S.) MS F.1.22.
21.
An extract from this letter which omits Flamsteed's statement of his opinion of comets, their formation, motion, etc., is printed in Baily'sAccount (ref. 5), 123–4. The missing details are supplied in TurnbullH. W. (ed.), The correspondence of Isaac Newton, ii (Cambridge, 1960), 336–40.
22.
Flamsteed to Crompton for Newton, 12 February 1680/1. This letter is no longer extant but some of its content can be inferred from Newton's reply (cf. ref. 23 below).
23.
Newton to Flamsteed, 28 February 1680/1; published in Turnbull (ed.), The correspondence of Isaac Newton, ii, 340–7.
24.
Flamsteed to Newton, 7 March 1680/1; ibid., 348–56.
25.
Newton to Crompton, April 1681; ibid., 358–62.
26.
Philosophical transactions, i, no. 16 (1666), 263–81.
27.
NewtonIsaac, Principia mathematica philosophiae naturalis (Londini, 1687), Lib. i, Prop. XI, pp. 50–51.
Hevelius to Oldenburg, 7 April 1674 [New Style]; published in HeveliusJohan, Annus climactericus (Gedani, 1685), 67–74.
33.
Flamsteed to Hevelius, 20 July 1676; ibid., 74–78.
34.
Hevelius to Flamsteed, 23 December 1676 [Old Style]; ibid., 79–89.
35.
Halley's Latin testimonial was addressed to Hevelius himself and dated 8 July 1679 [Old Style], the day of his departure from Danzig. The original is published in MacPikeE. F., Correspondence and papers of Edmond Halley (London, 1937), 44–45; in Hevelius, Annus climactericus, 101–2; and in OlhoffJohann Eric, Excerpta ex literis … Dr. Johannem Hevelium … de rebus astronomicis … scriptis (Gedani, 1683), 187–8. An English translation of its contents is contained in MacPikeE. F., Hevelius, Flamsteed and Halley (London, 1937), 85–88.
36.
“A Breviate of Monsieur Picarts Account of the Measure of the Earth” appeared in Philosophical transactions, x, no. 112 (1675), 261–72.
37.
The Flamsteed-Molyneux correspondence, comprising 70 letters written during the decade prior to the publication of Molyneux's Dioptrica nova (Dublini, 1692), is preserved in the Southampton Civic Record Office, England, under the reference D/M 1/1. The particular letter to which we are here referring is on ff. 22 and 24.
38.
Flamsteed to Molyneux, 11 April 1682; ibid., ff. 14, 15, 19.
