Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14780

    Ring of Saturn

    Date
    21 November 1671
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p51
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 312mm
    width (page): 195mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > Solar system
          > planet
             > Saturn
    Description
    Figure of Saturn observed by John Flamsteed, described in a letter to Henry Oldenburg.

    This is copied in LBC/5/055. The image in the original letter is at EL/F1/76/001.
    Related fellows
    John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719, British) , Astronomer
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > United Kingdom
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