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Römer, Flamsteed, Cassini and the Speed of Light
Autor: Frances Willmoth
Publikováno v: Centaurus. 54:39-57
One of Ole Romer's most influential contributions to astronomy was the theory that light has a finite speed, which he calculated from inequalities in the motion of a satellite of Jupiter. The English astronomer John Flamsteed, first director of the R
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https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0498.2011.00249.x
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‘Reconstruction’ and interpreting written instructions: what making a seventeenth-century plane table revealed about the independence of readers
Autor: Frances Willmoth
Publikováno v: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A. 40:352-359
This paper reports the experience of reconstructing a surveying instrument—the plane table—using the description found in Arthur Hopton’s Speculum topographicum: or The topographicall glasse (1611): ‘Of the Plaine Table, with a description th
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2009.10.004
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Dugdale's History of Imbanking and Drayning: a ‘Royalist’ Antiquarian in the Sixteen‐Fifties*
Autor: Frances Willmoth
Publikováno v: Historical Research. 71:281-302
Because of its overtly propagandist associations, William Dugdale's History of Imbanking and Drayning (1662) has been ignored by historians or at best dismissed as inferior to his other writings. Examination of its content, however, suggests that it
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https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.00065
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Sir Jonas (‘mathematical’) Moore and the founding of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich
Autor: Frances Willmoth
Publikováno v: Endeavour. 18:9-16
In the seventeenth century the rapid expansion of trade with the Far East and the Americas, together with military rivalry, led the great maritime powers to devote much effort to developing a reliable means of determining longitude at sea. In Britain
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https://doi.org/10.1016/0160-9327(94)90115-5
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Frances Willmoth, ed. Flamsteed’s Stars: New Perspectives on the Life and Work of the First Astronomer Royal, 1646-1719. Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell & Brewer. 1997. Pp. xiv, 271. $81.00. ISBN 0-85115-706-8
Autor: Frances Willmoth
Publikováno v: Albion. 32:113-115
Flamsteed's career in astronomy - nobility morality public utility, Jim Bennett models for the practice of astronomy - Flamsteed, Horrox and Tycho, Frances Willmoth astronomy and strife - John Flamsteed and the Royal Society, Mordechai Feingold Flams
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https://doi.org/10.2307/4054007
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‘The genius of all arts’ and the use of instruments: Jonas-Moore (1617–1679) as a mathematician, Surveyor, and astronomer
Autor: Frances Willmoth
Publikováno v: Annals of Science. 48:355-365
Summary The use of mathematical and astronomical instruments played an important part in the development of Jonas Moore's career. Though debates about the nature of mathematics raised questions about the value of instruments, they remained essential
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https://doi.org/10.1080/00033799100200341
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Rumblings in the air: understanding earthquakes in the 1690s
Autor: Frances Willmoth
Publikováno v: Endeavour. 31(1)
After a wave of earthquakes in 1692 and 1693, the astronomer John Flamsteed composed an innovative explanation of their causes. He argued that they did not originate underground but were caused by explosions of nitrous and sulphurous particles in the
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17336381
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