I have often heard him say that if his majestie would be but only at the chardge of sending out a ship, he would take the longitude and latitude, right ascensions and declinations of ... southern fixed starres.
Anno 1678, he added a spectacle-glasse to the shadowe-vane of the lesser arch of the sea-quadrant (or back-staffe); which is of great use, for that that spott of light will be manifest when you cannot see any shadowe.
He went to Dantzick to visit Hevelius, Anno 167-.
December 1st, 1680, went to Paris.
[1049]Edmund Haley:—cardinall d'Estrée caressed him and sent him to his brother the admirall with a lettre of recommendation.—He hath contracted an acquaintance and friendship with all the eminentst mathematicians of France and Italie, and holds a correspondence with them.
He returned into England, Januarii 24º, 1681/2.
Quaere Mr. Partridge of his Directio mortis, scilicet about 35 aetatis.
[1050]<Quaere> Edmund Halley who cutts his schemes in wood? they are well.
<David> Loggan informes me that one ... Edwards, the manciple of ... College Oxon, doth cut in wood very well.