Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15093

    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
    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.
    Transcription
    Eclipsis Solis Londini observata inter horas 7. et 10. Ante Meride 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.
    Related fellows
    John Colson (1680 - 1760, British) , Mathematician
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