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
width (page): 195mm
Subject
Content object
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.
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
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
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Associated place