Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14651

    Solar eclipse predicted for 1 May 1687

    Date
    21 December 1686
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p75
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 315mm
    width (page): 200mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > Solar system
          > Sun
    Description
    Figures of the solar eclipse to be observed at Smyrna, predicted to occur on 1 May 1687.

    Edmund Halley gave instructions to William Haley, a sea captain of the Levant Company, about how to observe a solar eclipse starting around 3pm on 1 May in Smyrna.

    The figure is copied in LBC/11i/109.
    Related fellows
    Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742, British) , Astronomer
    Associated place
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          > Turkey
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       > Europe
          > United Kingdom
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