Observations of stars and comets
Date
1664/1665
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p1
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 248mm
width (page): 173mm
width (page): 173mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Observations on stars and comets in December 1664, by an observer who worked for and travelled with the East India Company in Asia. The observer compares notes with observations made in Goa, India.
Transcription
After we plainly perceived it to change site, and to move from the fixt stars, with which it had, till the 20th, kept, as far as I would see, a constant position.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Related fellows
Joseph Williamson (1633 - 1701, British) , Government official