Lunar eclipse
Date
22 October 1668
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p101
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 365mm
width (page): 229mm
width (page): 229mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Figure of a lunar eclipse of 8 May 1668 observed by the Earl of Sandwich at Madrid, and reported to the meeting of the Royal Society on 22 October 1668, which ordered the observation to be registered.
This was copied from RBO/4/019.
This was copied from RBO/4/019.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 22 October 1668, ‘The earl of Sandwich’s observations made by himself during his embassy in Spain and Portugal, of the last comet seen by himself at Lisbon the first time on Feb. 25, 1667/8, O.S. and of the eclipse of the moon of May 15/25, 1668, were produced, and ordered to be registered’ (Birch 2:314).
Related fellows
Edward Montagu, Naval officer
Associated place