Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15084

    Table of solar eclipse

    Date
    8 June 1676
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    161a
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 315mm
    width (page): 200mm
    Subject
    Description
    Table of solar eclipse observed on 1 June 1676 by Mr Colson at Wapping. This was read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 8 June 1676.

    Table height: 91 mm
    Table width: 102 mm

    Observation of the eclipse of the sun, between 7 and 10 o'clock.
    The table gives different times within these three hours, and the different phases of the solar eclipse as well as the temperature.

    There is a copy of this table at JBC/4/232.
    Transcription
    Eclipse Solis, Londini Observata 1676 June 1.
    inter horas. 7 et 10. Antimer. Wappingae
    Transcribed by the Making Visible project
    Object history
    At the meeting of the Royal Society on 8 June 1676, ‘There was also read Mr. Colson’s observation of the late solar eclipse of June 1, made at Wapping’ (Birch 3:318).

    Printed in Phil. Trans. vol. 11, no. 126 (June 1676), p. 637, alongside Francis Smethwick's observation of the same.
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