Lunar eclipse
Date
25 March 1689
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p3
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 310mm
width (page): 222mm
width (page): 222mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Hevelius's template of the surface of the Moon used by Georg Christoph Eimmart (1638-1705) and Johann Philipp von Wurzelbau (1651-1725) to record their observation in Nuremberg of the total lunar eclipse on 25 March 1689. The observation was read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 2 April 1690.
Transcription
Eclipsis Lunae totalis observata Noribergae G. C. E. [Georgio Christophoro Eimmarto] Die 25 Martii Anno 1689.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 2 April 1690, 'There were presented the Observations of the Eclipses of the Moon on March 25th and September 19 1689, made at Nurenberg by Mr Wurtzelbaur and Mr Eimmart, largely and curiously described; together with those of the eclipse of the sun on September 3 last past; by the same Observers' (JBO/8/298).
Related fellows
Johannes Hevelius (1611 - 1687, German/Polish) , Astronomer
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