Lunar eclipse
Date
31 October 1670
Creator
Johannes Hevelius (1611 - 1687, German/Polish) , Astronomer
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p102b
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 190mm
width (page): 173mm
width (page): 173mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Print of the surface of the moon annotated with ink lines to indicate the phases of a lunar eclipse observed 31 October 1670 in Gdansk by Johannes Hevelius. This is the original chart sent with the letter, now at EL/H2/23. The letter was read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 14 November 1670, and then printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, vol. 5, no. 66 (1670), pp. 2023-28, but without this figure.
Object history
14 November 1670, ‘Mr. Oldenburg read a letter from Mr. Hevelius, dated at Dantzick Oct. 31, 1670, containing some of his late observations, 1. of the last eclipse of the moon on Sept. 29, 1670, N.S. 2. of the late conjunctions of Venus and the moon on the 11th of October 1670, N.S. and 3. of the considerable decrease of the new star lately discovered about the beak of Cygnus, and some remarks on the other new star in the neck of the whale’ (Birch 2:453).
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