Occultation of Jupiter
Date
10 April 1686
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p290
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 374mm
width (page): 238mm
width (page): 238mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Drawing of the path of Jupiter passing behind the Moon observed by Johannes Hevelius on 10 April 1686, and reported in a letter dated 17 April 1686. The letter was read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 24 November 1686.
This is copied from RBO/6/339. There is another version at LBO/10/337a.
This is copied from RBO/6/339. There is another version at LBO/10/337a.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 24 November 1686, ‘A letter of Mr. Hevelius, dated Dantzick, April 17, 1686, N.S.; was read, returning thanks to the Society for their present of the History of Fishes; and communicating his observations of the eclipse of Jupiter by the moon, March 31, 1686; and justifying Mr. Oldenburg against an aspersion of Mr. Hooke, who had represented, that the former had written to Mr. Hevelius more and different things, than he had been directed to do by the Royal Society’ (Birch 4:504).
Related fellows
Johannes Hevelius (1611 - 1687, German/Polish) , Astronomer
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