Sunspots
Date
1 November 1671
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
vol5 p32a
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 302mm
width (page): 176mm
width (page): 176mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Observation by Heinrich Sivers (1626-1691) of the sunspots in August 1671 at Hamburg, enclosed in a letter by Martin Vogel/Fogel (1634-1675) to Henry Oldenburg dated 1 November 1671, Hamburg. This letter was read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 9 November 1671, and printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 6, no. 78 (December 1671), though this figure was not printed.
The original letter is at EL/F1/34.
The original letter is at EL/F1/34.
Transcription
Macula in Sole observata Hamburgi diiebus Augusti Ao 1671
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 9 November 1671, ‘A letter of Dr. Fogelius to Mr. Oldenburg, dated at Hamburgh 1 Novemb. 1671, was read, treating of the observations of the Solar spots returned (after they had passed the Sun’s hemisphere, that is hid from us) from August 26 to Sept. 5, O. S. inclusive; as also concerning some uncommon plants’ (Birch 2:489).
Related fellows
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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