Mira of Cetus
Date
17th century
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p1
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 162mm
width (page): 290mm
width (page): 290mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Drawing of the constellation of Cetus and others with scales.
This appears to record observations of the variable star Mira of Cetus between 10 and 18 March of an unknown year. The text records that it was 'Drawn from the french Padres draft', which may suggest that it was copied from the papers of Ismael Bullialdus, a French mathematician and Catholic priest who reported on this star in Ad astronomos monita duo (1667). This work was reported in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society vol. 1, no. 21 (1667). Bullialdus was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in April 1667.
This appears to record observations of the variable star Mira of Cetus between 10 and 18 March of an unknown year. The text records that it was 'Drawn from the french Padres draft', which may suggest that it was copied from the papers of Ismael Bullialdus, a French mathematician and Catholic priest who reported on this star in Ad astronomos monita duo (1667). This work was reported in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society vol. 1, no. 21 (1667). Bullialdus was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in April 1667.
Object history
For Bullialdus’s observation of Mira of Cetus, see The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, ed. by A. Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall, 13 vols (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press; London: Taylor and Francis, 1965-86), III (1966), 329n3 (no. 602).
For another, later report on Mira of Cetus, see the letter from Henry Sivers to Oldenburg dated 23 June 1673 (EL/S1/124), in ibid., X (1975), 45-56 (no. 2259).
For another, later report on Mira of Cetus, see the letter from Henry Sivers to Oldenburg dated 23 June 1673 (EL/S1/124), in ibid., X (1975), 45-56 (no. 2259).
Related fellows
Ismael Bullialdus (1605 - 1694, French) , Clergyman
Associated place