Jupiter
Date
17 April 1686
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p337a
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 150mm
width (page): 165mm
width (page): 165mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Printed image (etching) of the Moon with ink annotations indicating the path of Jupiter.
Observation of the path of Jupiter behind the Moon 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.
There is a related image at RBO/6/339.
Observation of the path of Jupiter behind the Moon 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.
There is a related image at RBO/6/339.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 24 November 1686, ‘A letter of Mr. Hevelius, dated at 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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