Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14725

    Mock suns

    Date
    12 February 1670
    Creator
    Henri Justel (1620 - 1693, French) , Royal Librarian, librarian
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p245
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 309mm
    width (page): 200mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > Solar system
          > Sun
    Description
    Figure of mock suns observed in Chateaudun, reported by Henri Justel in his letter to Henry Oldenburg dated 12 February 1670.

    The figure on a smaller piece of paper (H:57cm, W:61cm) is from the original letter, cut out and pasted in.

    This image is copied in LBC/3/296.
    Related fellows
    Henri Justel (1620 - 1693, French) , Royal Librarian, Librarian
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    Associated place
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       > Europe
          > France
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