Path of a comet
Date
March 1672
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p191b
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 150mm
width (page): 162mm
width (page): 162mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Etching of a path of a comet marked on a map of constellations.
Erich Mauritius (1631-1691), Professor of Law at the University of Kiel and Assessor to the Imperial Court, wrote in a letter to Oldenburg dated 19 March 1672 at Speyer about a comet observed in Strasbourg (12-13 March 1672) that Mauritius also tried to observe with a telescope, which he complained was poor. Mauritius reported that the comet was observed by Julius Reichelt, Professor of Mathematics at Strasbourg, and included a printed chart of it. This print, now transferred to the Letter Book, bears the inked-in position of the comet on the 16th and 17th observed by Mauritius, and must have been included with the original letter, now EL/M1/68 (The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, vol. 8, p. 603n).
There are other copies of this print at LBO/5/191a and EL/M1/68/005.
Erich Mauritius (1631-1691), Professor of Law at the University of Kiel and Assessor to the Imperial Court, wrote in a letter to Oldenburg dated 19 March 1672 at Speyer about a comet observed in Strasbourg (12-13 March 1672) that Mauritius also tried to observe with a telescope, which he complained was poor. Mauritius reported that the comet was observed by Julius Reichelt, Professor of Mathematics at Strasbourg, and included a printed chart of it. This print, now transferred to the Letter Book, bears the inked-in position of the comet on the 16th and 17th observed by Mauritius, and must have been included with the original letter, now EL/M1/68 (The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, vol. 8, p. 603n).
There are other copies of this print at LBO/5/191a and EL/M1/68/005.
Related fellows
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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