Satellites of Jupiter
Date
[7 October 1671]
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
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Manuscript page number
vol5 p9
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 302mm
width (page): 178mm
width (page): 178mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Jupiter's satellites observed on 25 September 1671 by Johannes Hevelius in Gdansk, and communicated to the Royal Society in his letter to Henry Oldenburg. It was read at the Society's meeting on 2 November 1671 and printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 6, no. 78 (December 1671).
This is copied from LBO/5/009. There is a related image at El/H2/28/004.
This is copied from LBO/5/009. There is a related image at El/H2/28/004.
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).
J. Hevelius, 'Some of his late celestial observations', Phil. Trans. vol. 6, no. 78 (December 1671), pp. 3027-33 (p. 3030).
J. Hevelius, 'Some of his late celestial observations', Phil. Trans. vol. 6, no. 78 (December 1671), pp. 3027-33 (p. 3030).
Related fellows
Johannes Hevelius (1611 - 1687, German/Polish) , Astronomer
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