Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14740

    Sunspots

    Date
    5 February 1705
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p58
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 320mm
    width (page): 204mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > Solar system
          > Sun
    Description
    Figure I of the sunspot observed by Stephen Gray in November 1704. His letter to Hans Sloane on this observation was read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 14 February 1705.

    Copied from EL/G1/57/013.
    Transcription
    A spot in the Sun in November 1704
    Transcribed by the Making Visible project
    Object history
    14 February 1705, 'A Letter was Read from Mr Gray to Dr Sloane concerning some spots which he had observed in the Sun. Mr Hunt was order'd to send him Scheiner & Galileo on these subjects, he promising to return them in reasonable time' (JBO/11/64).
    Related fellows
    Stephen Gray (1666 - 1736, British) , Astronomer
    Associated place
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          > United Kingdom
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