Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15488

    Solar eclipse

    Date
    2 July 1666
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p1
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 302mm
    width (page): 185mm
    Subject
    Description
    Table of the phases of the solar eclipse observed on 2 July 1666 at Gdansk by Johannes Hevelius. This table was included in Hevelius's letter to Henry Oldenburg dated 19 October 1666.
    Related fellows
    Johannes Hevelius (1611 - 1687, German/Polish) , Astronomer
    Associated place
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