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- Thomas Street (also spelled Streete) (1621 – 1689) was an English astronomer. In 1661, he published Astronomia Carolina, a new theorie of Coelestial Motions. An Appendix to Astronomia Carolina (including tables) followed in 1664. Astronomia Carolina was widely read, and used by students who later became very notable in their own right, e.g. by Isaac Newton and by John Flamsteed. Streete's tables in Astronomia Carolina attained some reputation for accuracy: for example, Flamsteed once referred to them as "the exactest tables in being, the Caroline", and Astronomia Carolina itself appeared in second and third editions as late as 1710 and 1716. 1674 saw the appearance of Street's Description and Use of the Planetary Systeme together with Easie Tables, as well as in the same year Tables of Projection, for artillery, accompanying a work on gunnery by Robert Anderson. 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. Thomas Streete the astronomer has sometimes been confused with another Thomas Street, a judge, who lived from 1626 to 1696. Additional information about Thomas Streete the astronomer is contained in "Brief Lives" by his contemporary John Aubrey. According to John Aubrey, Streete was born in Ireland, at Castle Lyons, March 5, 1621, and: :"He dyed in Chanon-row (vulgarly Channel-rowe) at Westminster, the 17th August, 1689, and is buried in the church yard of the new chapell there. " ... About Streete's personality, Aubrey wrote that :"He was of a rough and cholerique disposition. Discoursing with Prince Rupert, his highnesse affirmed something that was not according to art; sayd Mr. Street, 'whoever affirmes that is no mathematician. ' So they would point at him afterwards at court and say, 'There's the man that huff't prince Rupert. '" ... "He hath left with his widowe (who lives in Warwick lane ... ) an absolute piece of Trigonometrie, plain and spherical, in MS. , more perfect than ever was yet donne, and more clear and demonstrated. " ... "He was one of Mr. Ashmole's clarkes in the Excise office, which was his chiefest lively-hood. " Cajori quotes an attribution to Street of an invention, an improved back-staff, a modification of an earlier instrument by Robert Hooke, adding to the device two planes and a small mirror (citing Saverien's article on the 'quartier anglois', in Dictionnaire universel de mathematique, Paris, 1753). Cajori listed among Streete's publications a number of pamphlets, including one that showed how Streete engaged in a vigorous polemic with Vincent Wing, his astronomical competitor, who had published a criticism of Streete's own Astronomia Carolina. Edmond Halley (1656-1742), Streete's much younger contemporary, wrote of Streete as his 'good friend' (according to Halley's biographer), and said that they had observed a lunar eclipse together. Halley wrote an appendix to the 1710 edition of Street's Astronomia Carolina, and Cajori (op. cit. ) said that Halley actually 'brought out' that 1710 edition. The crater Street on the Moon is named after him.
- トーマス・ストリート（Thomas Street または Streete、1621年3月15日 - 1689年8月27日）は17世紀のイギリスの天文学の普及書Astronomia Carolinaの著者である。 アイルランドで生まれた。Excise office（税務局）の役人をしながら、他の天文学者の観測を助けた。1661に出版されたAstronomia Carolina:a new theorie of Coelestial Motions(『チャールズ王時代の天文学：天体運動の新理論』)はケプラーの法則を取り入れた17世紀後半の天文の解説書としてイギリスで最も普及した。1674年に追補版Appendix to Astronomia CarolinaとDescription and Use of the Planetary Systeme together with Easie Tablesを発表した。Astronomia Carolinaの1710年版はエドモンド・ハレーが改訂を行った。
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