Lunar eclipse
Date
18 September 1689
Creator
Unknown, Artist
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Manuscript page number
pp2-3
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 324mm
width (page): 417mm
width (page): 417mm
Subject
Description
Table and figures of a lunar eclipse observed on 18 September 1689 at Nuremberg by Georg Christoph Eimmart (1638-1705). These, along with other astronomical observations by him, were read to the Royal Society 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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