Occultation of Saturn
Date
19 June 1671
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Manuscript page number
p327a
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 143mm
width (page): 146mm
width (page): 146mm
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Content object
Description
Print of the surface of the Moon with ink and grey wash annotation to indicate the phase of the Moon and the path of Saturn.
The inscription at the top reads, in translation (Hall and Hall, vol. 8, p. 86): 'occultation of Saturn, observed at Danzig, Johannes Hevelius, 1 June 1671, in the morning'.
From Hevelius's letter to Oldenburg dated 19 June 1671, which was read at the Royal Society on 2 November 1671, and published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 6, no. 78, p. 3027, without the figure.
The inscription at the top reads, in translation (Hall and Hall, vol. 8, p. 86): 'occultation of Saturn, observed at Danzig, Johannes Hevelius, 1 June 1671, in the morning'.
From Hevelius's letter to Oldenburg dated 19 June 1671, which was read at the Royal Society on 2 November 1671, and published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 6, no. 78, p. 3027, without the figure.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 2 November 1671, ‘Two Latin letters of Mr. Hevelius to Mr. Oldenburg, one of 19 June 1671, about an occultation of Saturn by the moon; another of October 7, 1671, containing several observations, as the late immersion of one of the Satellites of Jupiter into his shadow, the late eclipse of the moon, the late transit of Jupiter and the moon, and the present phasis of Saturn in regard of his rings; as also the reappearance of the two new stars in the neck of the whale, and near the beak of the Swan. These letters were referred to the professors of astronomy and geometry in Gresham-college to consider and make report of them to the Society’ (Birch 2:486).
Printed in J. Hevelius, 'Some of his late celestial observations', Phil. Trans. vol. 6, no. 78 (December 1671), pp. 3027-33
Printed in J. Hevelius, 'Some of his late celestial observations', Phil. Trans. vol. 6, no. 78 (December 1671), pp. 3027-33
Related fellows
Johannes Hevelius (1611 - 1687, German/Polish) , Astronomer
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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