Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15356

    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
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > comet
    space
       > star
    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
    Related fellows
    Joseph Williamson (1633 - 1701, British) , Government official
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