Thomas Street

Thomas Street

"This article is about an English astronomer, for the street in central Dublin, Ireland, see Thomas Street. For the street in central Perth, Australia, see Thomas Street."

Thomas Street (also spelled Streete) (1621—1689) was an English astronomer. In 1661, he wrote "Astronomia Carolina, a new theorie of Coelestial Motions". The "Appendix to Astronomia Carolina" appeared in 1674. 1674 also saw the appearance of Street's "Description and Use of the Planetary Systeme together with Easie Tables".

A follower of Johannes Kepler, Street argued, like Kepler, that Earth's rate of daily rotation is not uniform. He argued that the rotation increased as it approached the Sun. [http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/rhatch/pages/03-Sci-Rev/SCI-REV-Home/resource-ref-read/major-individuals/huygens/08sr-h1.htm]

Edmund Halley wrote an appendix to the 1710 edition of Street's "Astronomia Carolina".

Street crater on the Moon is named after him.


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