Parhelia
Date
7 April 1674
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
vol7 p96a
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 238mm
width (page): 178mm
width (page): 178mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Parhelia observed by Johannes Hevelius near Marienburg (Malbork, Poland) on 5 February 1674. The letter was read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 23 April 1674, and printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 9, no. 102 (April 1674), pp. 26-27, figs 3-5.
This is copied from LBO/7/063a.
This is copied from LBO/7/063a.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 23 April 1674, ‘Mr Oldenburg read a letter to himself from Mr Hevelius, dated at Dantzick, 26th March 1674,… In this leter Mr Hevelius describes a phaenomena seen by himself about Marienburgh in Prussia, 5th February 1673/4, wherein the sun appeared with a very long tail, and a mock-sun directly under him.’ Birch 3: 133.
Figs 3-5, Parhelia observed by Hevelius, 5 February 1674, not far from Marienburg, in 'A certain phaenomenon seen by Monsieur Hevelius Feb 5 1674', Phil. Trans. vol. 9, no. 102 (April 1674), pp. 26-27.
Figs 3-5, Parhelia observed by Hevelius, 5 February 1674, not far from Marienburg, in 'A certain phaenomenon seen by Monsieur Hevelius Feb 5 1674', Phil. Trans. vol. 9, no. 102 (April 1674), pp. 26-27.
Related fellows
Johannes Hevelius (1611 - 1687, German/Polish) , Astronomer
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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