Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14417

    An extraordinary twilight

    Date
    February 1688
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p84
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 370mm
    width (page): 236mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Diagrams explaining an extraordinary twilight observed at Nuremberg by Johann Philipp von Wurzelbau (1651-1725) in January and February 1688. From a letter by Wurzelbau to Edmond Halley dated 15 March 1688.
    Transcription
    From beginning of document:
    Crepusculum extraordinarium incolis Europae certo ami tempore apparens denu observatum Norimbergae

    Mense Februario A: 1688

    Joh: Philippo Wurzelbaur
    Transcribed by the Making Visible project
    Associated place
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