'Heleo-comets' and 'seleno-comets'
Date
8/18 December 1689
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p1
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 312mm
width (page): 192mm
width (page): 192mm
Subject
Content object
Description
These sketches show celestial apparitions observed on 18 December 1689 [N.S.] in Altdorf by Johann Christoph Sturm (1635-1703). They show the sun and the moon emitting tails like a comet, which were perpendicular to the horizon. This account was read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 2 April 1690.
Object history
2 April 1690, 'There was an account of an odd appearance of the Sun and Moone emitting long tayles perpendicular to the Horizon, on the 8th of December last, at Altorff near to Nurnberg; proceeding from some particular Constitution of the Air, which lasted all night, the Sun arising the next morning with a like Tayle; observed by Mr Sturmius' (JBO/8/298).
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