Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15687

    Lunar eclipse

    Date
    1 January 1676
    Creator
    Johannes Hevelius (1611 - 1687, German/Polish) , Astronomer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p3a
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 114mm
    width (page): 98mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > Solar system
          > Moon
    Description
    Printed image of lunar surface with brown ink lines to indicate the phases of the lunar eclipse.

    This image is of a lunar eclipse observed in Gdansk by Johannes Hevelius on 1 January 1676, and communicated in a letter to Henry Oldenburg dated 15 February 1676 (EL/H2/41).

    The image is not related to the observation for which the date is given in EL/H2/39 (total eclipse of the Moon on 11 January 1675), and which accompanied the letter dated 21 March 1675 (Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, ed. by Hall and Hall, vol. 11, 212-20 (nos 2625, 2625a).
    Related fellows
    Johannes Hevelius (1611 - 1687, German/Polish) , Astronomer
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > Poland
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