Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14741

    Sunspots

    Date
    5 February 1705
    Creator
    Stephen Gray (1666 - 1736, British) , Astronomer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p59
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 320mm
    width (page): 200mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > Solar system
          > Sun
    Description
    Figure II of the sunspots observed by Stephen Gray in January 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/G1/57/015.
    Transcription
    Spots in the Sun in January 1703/4
    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).
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