Observations of a solar eclipse
Date
8 June 1676
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p232
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 315mm
width (page): 198mm
width (page): 198mm
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.
Copied from the table at JBO/5/161.
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.
Copied from the table at JBO/5/161.
Transcription
Eclipsis Solis Londini observata inter horas 7. et 10. Ante Meride Wappingae
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
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.
Printed in Phil. Trans. vol. 11, no. 126 (June 1676), p. 637, alongside Francis Smethwick's observation of the same.
Related fellows
John Colson (1680 - 1760, British) , Mathematician
Associated place