Parhelia in Hungary
Date
3 March 1669
Creator
Edward Brown (1644 - 1708, British) , Physician
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p34c
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 216mm
width (page): 156mm
width (page): 156mm
Subject
Content object
Description
A drawing of one of the two parhelias whose description Edward Browne received from a Jesuit, Father Michel, and sent to his father Thomas Browne (the author of Pseudodoxia epidemica) in his letter dated 3 March 1669 [N.S.] Vienna. Christopher Merret communicated the letter to the meeting of the Royal Society on 1 April 1669.
Transcription
Sr
I recieved the accompt of the 2 Parelias (seen in Hungary, the one last Easterday, the other the 30 of January last) from a learned person, Father Michel a Jesuit, who lives at Presburg, but is now in this city. You may, if you please, have the figure better drawn, and send it to my honoured friend M. Oldenburg,
Edward Browne
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I recieved the accompt of the 2 Parelias (seen in Hungary, the one last Easterday, the other the 30 of January last) from a learned person, Father Michel a Jesuit, who lives at Presburg, but is now in this city. You may, if you please, have the figure better drawn, and send it to my honoured friend M. Oldenburg,
Edward Browne
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Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 1 April 1669, ‘Dr. Merret communicated a letter written by Dr. Edward Brown to his father, Dr. Thomas Brown, dated at Vienna March 3, 1668/9, containing an account of two parhelia lately seen in Hungary, and of four other parhelia seen in the same country in 1668 at Easter. This letter was ordered to be entered in the Letter-Book’ (Birch, 2:357).
Related fellows
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Edward Brown (1644 - 1708, British) , Physician
Christopher Merrett (1614 - 1695, British) , Physician
Edward Brown (1644 - 1708, British) , Physician
Christopher Merrett (1614 - 1695, British) , Physician
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