Thomas Street

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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.[1]

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

Street crater on the Moon is named after him.