Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14514

    Sunspots

    Date
    1 September 1671
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p183
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 365mm
    width (page): 233mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > Solar system
          > Sun
    Description
    Drawing of a sunspot (with one large spot and two smaller ones) observed on 1 September 1671 by Robert Hooke. It was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 6, no. 77.

    This figure was copied from RBO/4/107.
    Object history
    Printed in R. Hooke, 'Some spots in the sun, return'd after they had passed over the upper hemisphere of the sun which is bid from us, according as was predicted', Phil. Trans. vol. 6, no. 77 (November 1671), pp. 2295-3001 (p. 2295, woodcut).
    Related fellows
    Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
    Associated place
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       > Europe
          > United Kingdom
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