Manuscripts of S.P. Rigaud, including transcripts, summaries of lectures, and papers relating to Edmond Halley.
Dates
- Creation: 16th-19th cent.
Extent
2.31 Linear metres (21 boxes)
Language of Materials
- English
- Latin
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MSS. Rigaud 69, fols. 1-2].
Full range of shelfmarks:
MSS. Rigaud 69-89
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 13423
Abstract
Manuscripts of S.P. Rigaud, including transcripts, summaries of lectures, and papers relating to Edmond Halley.
Biographical / Historical
Stephen Peter Rigaud (1774-1839), astronomer, was Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford University, 1810-39, and also Radcliffe Observer from 1827. He came of a French Protestant family, and was the son of Stephen Rigaud, Observer at Kew. He was educated at Richmond and Exeter College, Oxford (matriculated 15 April 1791, BA 1797, MA 1799, Fellow of the College, 1794-1810). He was especially interested in the historical side of science, and is best known for his editions of Miscellaneous works and correspondence of the Rev. James Bradley (Oxford, 1832) and of Correspondence of Scientific Men of the Seventeenth Century, a posthumous work (Oxford, 1841). Further details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.
Other Finding Aids
M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. II, nos. 52036-52056.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The manuscripts were transferred to the Library from the Radcliffe Observatory in 1935, except for MS. Rigaud 89, which was given to the Library in 1935.
Subject
- Halley | Edmond | 1656-1742 | Astronomer (Person)
- Rigaud | Stephen Peter | 1774-1839 | astronomer (Person)
- University of Oxford (Organisation)
- Title
- Rigaud Manuscripts
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Collection Level Description by Emily Tarrant; EAD version 2019 by Pauline Soum-Paris
- Date
- EAD version 2019
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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