Solar eclipse
Date
16 September 1687
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p70
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 370mm
width (page): 235mm
width (page): 235mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Diagram of a solar eclipse observed in Nuremberg on 1 May 1687 by Johann Philipp von Wurzelbau (1651-1725), who wrote to Edmond Halley about it on 16 September 1687. The letter was read to the Royal Society on 9 November 1687.
Transcription
Eclipsis Solis
Norimbergae observata a Joh. Phil: Wurzelbaur
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Norimbergae observata a Joh. Phil: Wurzelbaur
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
9 November 1687, ‘Mr. Halley read a letter in Latin to himself from Mr Wurtzelbaur, dated at Nuremberg, 16 Sept. 1687, O.S., containing his observations of the eclipse of the 1st of May, 1687’ (Birch 4:551).
Related fellows
Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742, British) , Astronomer
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