Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14624

    Nova in the constellation of Cygnus

    Date
    29 October 1666
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p361
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 310mm
    width (page): 195mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > star
    Description
    Figure of the constellation of Cygnus to indicate the position of a new star observed by Johannes Hevelius at Gdansk and described in his letter to Henry Oldenburg dated 29 October 1666.

    It was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, vol. 1, no. 21 (1667), p. 372.

    This image is copied at LBC/1/426.
    Transcription
    Cygnus ruditer delineatus [Cygnus drawn roughly]
    Transcribed by the Making Visible project
    Object history
    Figure of a nova in J. Hevelius, 'The figure of the stars in the constellation of Cygnus, together with the New Star in it, discovered some years since, and very lately seen by M. Hevelius again', Phil. Trans. vol. 1, no. 21 (January 1667), p. 372.
    Related fellows
    Johannes Hevelius (1611 - 1687, German/Polish) , Astronomer
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    Associated place
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          > Albania
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       > Europe
          > Poland
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