Transit of Mars

Date

27 July 1672

Creator

Unknown, Artist

Object type

manuscript
diagram

Archive reference number

LBC

Manuscript page number

vol5 p345

Material

ink
paper

Dimensions

height (page): 301mm
width (page): 177mm

Subject

Astronomy

Content object

space
   > Solar system
      > planet
         > Mars

Description

Flamsteed's observation of the transit of Mars, communicated in a letter to Henry Oldenburg dated 27 July 1672. It 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/5/313.

Related fellows

John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719, British) , Astronomer
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent

Associated place

<The World>
> Europe
> United Kingdom