Comet
Date
17 November 1682
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
vol8 p354
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 303mm
width (page): 177mm
width (page): 177mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Copy of a figure of a comet observed by Johannes Hevelius in August 1682. His observation was read at the meeting on 22 November 1682, and printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 13, no. 143 (1683).
This is copied from LBO/8/241a.
This is copied from LBO/8/241a.
Object history
22 November 1682, ‘Mr. Aston read a letter to himself from Mr. Hevelius, dated at Dantzick 17 November 1682, N. S. desiring assistance of the Society for the printing of his globes, of which he had the design ready drawn, […] In the same letter was an account of the observations, which he had made of the late comet, with some other celestial observations, and the daily places and motions of the comet taken off from a globe, but not by calculation, and a small draught of the apparent figure of the comet on the [blank] of August. Whereupon Mr. Hooke fetched his observations on the same comet, and shewed the figure of it taken by himself on the same day, having carefully observed it with a fourteen feet telescope, and delineated it with his own hand’ (Birch 4:166-67).
Printed as fig. 2 in J. Hevelius, ‘Observation of a comet which began to appear 16 August 1682 at Dantzick’, Phil. Trans. vol 13, no. 143 (January 1683), pp, 16-19 (ref. to fig. 2 on p. 19).
Printed as fig. 2 in J. Hevelius, ‘Observation of a comet which began to appear 16 August 1682 at Dantzick’, Phil. Trans. vol 13, no. 143 (January 1683), pp, 16-19 (ref. to fig. 2 on p. 19).
Related fellows
Johannes Hevelius (1611 - 1687, German/Polish) , Astronomer
Francis Aston (1644 - 1715, British) , Natural philosopher
Francis Aston (1644 - 1715, British) , Natural philosopher
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