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TN this book the editor of the “Correspondence and Papers of Edmond Halley” has brought together brief, straightforward lives of the three great astronomers named in the title; a separate consideration of their commerce together and mutual relations; and, in appendixes, several documents and letters concerning them, chiefly Hevelius. Where the pieces are in Latin a translation has in some, but not in all, cases been furnished by the pen of Mr. A. H. White.
Hevelius, Flamsteed and Halley:
Three Contemporary Astronomers and their Mutual Relations. By Eugene Fairfield MacPike. Pp. ix + 140 + 4 plates. (London: Taylor and Francis, Ltd., 1937.) 12s. 6d. net.
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A., E. Some Seventeenth Century Astronomers. Nature 143, 351–352 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143351a0
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