Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14999

    Satellites of Jupiter

    Date
    5 February 1672
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    LBC
    Manuscript page number
    vol5 p172
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 303mm
    width (page): 174mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > Solar system
          > planet
             > Jupiter
    Description
    Figure of Jupiter's satellites in John Flamsteed's letter to Oldenburg, which was read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 8 February 1672.

    This is copied from LBO/5/156. The original letter is at EL/F1/79.
    Object history
    At the meeting of the Royal Society on 8 February 1672, ‘Letters to Mr. Oldenburg were read […] of Mr Flamstead, dated at Derby, 5th February, 1672, containing some of his late observations concerning the satellites of Jupiter’ (Birch 3:9-10).
    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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