Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15007

    Diagram relating to the transit of Mars

    Date
    27 July 1672
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    After
    John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719, British) , Astronomer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    LBC
    Manuscript page number
    vol5 p341
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 301mm
    width (page): 177mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > Solar system
          > planet
             > Mars
    Description
    Diagram in John Flamsteed's observation of the transit of Mars, communicated in a letter to Henry Oldenburg signed Derby, 27 July 1672. The letter was printed in John Flamsteed, 'Some astronomical observations in part already made, partly to be made', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 7, no. 86 (August 1672), pp. 5034-42 (p. 5042).

    Copied from LBO/5/310.
    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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