Diagram for observing Jupiter
Date
19 April 1673
Creator
Unknown, Artist
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Manuscript page number
vol6 p100
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Dimensions
height (page): 301mm
width (page): 177mm
width (page): 177mm
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Description
Diagram in John Flamsteed's observations of Jupiter in a letter dated 16 April 1673. The letter was read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 7 May 1673. An extract of this letter, dated as 19 April 1673 (the date of the covering letter), was published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 8, no. 94 (May 1673), pp. 6033-36.
The diagrams in this letter are copied from LBO/6/086-088. The original letter is at EL/F1/96.
The diagrams in this letter are copied from LBO/6/086-088. The original letter is at EL/F1/96.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 7 May 1673, ‘Mr. Oldenburg read a letter to himself from Mr. Flamsted, dated at Derby, 19th April, 1673, accompanied with a paper in Latin, containing some observations of his own about Jupiter’s transit near some fixed stars, useful for the determining its inclination to the ecliptic. These observations were recommended to the perusal of Mr. Hooke’ (Birch 3:88).
Figs 2-4 in John Flamsteed, 'An extract of his letter of April. 19. 1673, containing some more accurate observations of his own, about Jupiter's transits near some fixed stars; useful for determining the inclination of that planet to the ecliptic’, Phil. Trans. vol. 8, no. 94 (May 1673), 6033-36.
Figs 2-4 in John Flamsteed, 'An extract of his letter of April. 19. 1673, containing some more accurate observations of his own, about Jupiter's transits near some fixed stars; useful for determining the inclination of that planet to the ecliptic’, Phil. Trans. vol. 8, no. 94 (May 1673), 6033-36.
Related fellows
John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719, British) , Astronomer
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