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Papers of Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749-1822). These are calculations, tables, and notes regarding the planets Uranus, Venus, Jupiter, and other planets and celestial bodies including comets and stars. There are also notes relating to the history of Astronomy.

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Bound volumes, original correspondence, miscellaneous letters, communication with the American Library in Paris, etc.

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Photostats and other research material, photos, manuscripts, newspapers and clippings, bound volumes, Master's thesis, chapter drafts, genealogical information, research ntoes, etc.

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Manuscripts, photostats, bound volumes, proofs, correspondence, etc.

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Estate files, correspondence, manuscripts, 3x5 notecards and notebooks, genealogical data bound volumes, Interstate Commerce Commission license, scrolls, photos, letterbooks, periodicals, photostats and other research material, and scrapbook of maps, pamphlets, manuscripts, etc.

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Bound volumes, record books, common-place books, pamphlets, financial books and periodicals, mewspapers and magazines, accounts, tax reports, correspondence, remembrances, family coat-of-arms, postcards, etc.

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Correspondence, notes, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, research material, genealogical information (families of McPike, Halley/Hawley, Brown, Parker, Denton, etc.), linguistics manuscripts and materials, photostats, correspondence, negatives, bound volumes, essays, etc.

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This letter is dated 15 August 1686 and was written to Dr. Johann Philipp von Wurtzelbau (1651-1725) "my dear and respectable friend." Its content is concerned with arguments relating to lunar eclipses, about the planets Mars and Uranus, some astronomical theories, and in what should be made public. Hevelius expresses concern that his observations are considered forbidden by the council in Rome.

Scope and Contents Materials include thirty-three letters written from de Lalande to Mme. de Piery discussing his work, the current political situation, and personal matters. Portions of three letters have been excised, possibly because of their political content. Some items are not dated, others are dated using the calendar adopted by the French following the Revolution (1789-1792) with no attempt to correlate these dates with the Gregorian calendar. All items handwritten, some signed. All but one...

Abstract Contains McPike's genealogy research in the Halley, Pyke and MacPike families (all English, among others) and his research for the publications: Hevelius, Flamsteed and Halley: Three Contemporary Astronomers and Their Mutual Relations (London: Taylor and Francis, 1937), and Correspondence and Papers of Edmond Halley (London: Taylor and Francis, 1937). McPike also collected and wrote about Sir Isaac Newton. The papers also includes McPike's research materials related to his publications on...