Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14300

    Saturn's ring

    Date
    29 June 1666
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p176
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 363mm
    width (page): 233mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > Solar system
          > planet
             > Saturn
    Description
    One image of Saturn and an image with orientation points.

    Hooke's paper (Cl.P/8i/18/001) was read on 11 July 1666 and was ordered to be registered (RBO/3/176). The image of Saturn was printed as Fig. R, observation of Saturn in Robert Hooke, 'The particular observations of the planet Mars, formerly intimated to have been made by Mr Hook in February and March last, Some observations, made in Italy, confirming the former; and withall fixing the period of the said planet's revolution. Observation lately made at London, of the planet Jupiter: as also of Saturn', Philosophical Transactions vol. 1, no. 14 (July 1666), pp. 239-48.
    Object history
    At the meeting of the Royal Society on 11 July 1666, ‘Mr. Hooke’s observation on Saturn, made June 29, 1666, was read, and ordered to be registered’ (Birch 2:103).

    Printed in Robert Hooke, 'The particular observations of the planet Mars, formerly intimated to have been made by Mr Hook in February and March last, Some observations, made in Italy, confirming the former; and withall fixing the period of the said planet's revolution. Observation lately made at London, of the planet Jupiter: as also of Saturn', Phil. Trans. vol. 1, no. 14 (July 1666), pp. 239-48, refs. to figures at pp. 241-42, 245, 246-47.
    Related fellows
    Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
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