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Papers of John Goodricke and Nathaniel and Edward Pigott, astronomers. Includes:
-Papers of John Goodricke
-Papers of Nathaniel Pigott
-Papers of Edward Pigott
-Letters of John Goodricke and Nathaniel and Edward Pigott
-Printed material by other individuals

Papers of John Goodricke. Includes:
-School exercise book Mathematics, Trigonometry and Logarithms 1780 (from Goodricke's time at Warrington Academy)
-Journal of Astronomical Observations 1781-1786
-Notebook Catalogue of Stars, Nebulas, and Double Stars Etc. 1782-1783
-Notebook Reductions of Observations of Eclipses, Occultations, Etc.' 1782-1784
-Journal of the Going of My Clock 1782-1784
-Reductions of the Places of Comets Etc, Etc. 1783
-Printed copies of communications from John Goodricke to the Royal Society 1783-1785

Papers of Nathaniel Pigott. Includes:
-Barometrical and Thermometrical Observations 1760-1769
-Astronomical Observations 1760-1772
-Astronomical Journal 1761-1786
-Astronomical Observations 2 (fair copy) 1766-1773
-Mathematical Correspondence to 1781. 1770-1782
-Mathematical Correspondence 1783, 1784, and 1786. 1783-1786
-Book of Transit Observations 1778-1785

Papers of Edward Pigott. Includes:
-First Astronomical Journal 1773-1789
-Astronomical Journal 1769-1801
-Book of Transit Observations 1781-1790
-Celestial Atlas Atlas, Celeste de Flamsteed, annotated, 1776-1815
-Papers by Edward Pigott read before the Royal Society 1779-1815
-Notebook- Transit Observations of Herchell's Planet reduced (Uranus) 1781-1782
-Folder of Observations, Drawings and Letters on Comets 1782-1786
-Calculations on the Declination of Venus 1782-1786
-Results of the Observations of Herchell's Planet (Uranus) 1782-1783
-Folder Declinations and Right Ascensions of Stars Observed 1782-1785
-Notebook Reductions of the Georgian Sidus (Uranus) 1783-1785
-Calculations of the Right Ascension and Declination of Pigott's Comet and of the Longitude of York 1781-1785

Letters of John Goodricke and Nathaniel and Edward Pigott. Includes:
-Goodricke's Communications to the Royal Society 1783-1785
-Goodricke's Other Letters 1783-1784
-Letters and Memoranda of Nathaniel and Edward Pigott 1774-1812

Printed material by other individuals. Includes:
-Observations des hauteurs faites avec le Barometre, au mois d'Aoust 1751 sur une partie des Alpen by Mr Needham 1760
-Further Observations Upon Lightning by Benjamin Wilson 1774
-Description of a Method of Taking the Differences of Right Ascension and Declination with the Reticule Rhomboide of Dr Bradley by H.E. 1784
-Tables of the Apparent Places of the Comet of 1661, Whose Return is Expected in 1789. by Sir Henry Englefield 1788