Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15514

    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
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > Solar system
          > Moon
    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
    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
    Associated place
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       > Europe
          > Germany
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