References for Abraham Sharp

1. Biography by Frances Willmoth, in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004).

Books:

2. W Cudworth, Life and Correspondence of Abraham Sharp (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London, 1889).
3. E G Forbes et al. (eds.), The correspondence of John Flamsteed, the first astronomer royal (1995-2001).
4. N S Heineken, Relics of the mechanical productions of Abraham Sharp, the assistant of Flamsteed, London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine 30 (1847), 25-27.
5. S Melmore, Abraham Sharp's universal instrument, The Observatory 61 (1938), 248-250.

November 2006