Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15515

    Table of observations of solar eclipse

    Date
    3 September 1689
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p1
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 330mm
    width (page): 208mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > Solar system
          > Sun
    Description
    Table of the solar eclipse of 3 September 1689 observed by Georg Christoph Eimmart (1638-1705), an astronomer and engraver based in Nuremberg. This, together with some other observations of his, was read at the Royal Society's meeting on 2 April 1690.
    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).
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