Transit of Mercury
Date
31 October 1690
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p1
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 312mm
width (page): 198mm
width (page): 198mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Transit of mercury observed by Johann Philipp von Wurzelbau (1651-1725) on 31 October 1690 in Nuremberg. Wurzelbau's letter to Edmond Halley was read to a meeting of the Royal Society on 4 February 1691. The observation, without the figure, was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 16, no. 192 (1691).
Transcription
Ratio diametrorum Solis et nuclei Mercurii dum lucido solis disco immorabatur,,,
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
4 February 1691, 'There was read an account of the Appearance of Mercury in the Sun observed at Nurenburgh by Mr Wurtzelbauer: viz that He went out of the Sun on the N.W. limb at 8.25 at Nurenburg id est Londini 7 hr 41, 14, sooner than it had been produced by a calculus. Halley having formerly observed the like appearance of this Planet in the Sun was ordered to bring in the next day some account of that Phaenomenon in Generall' (JBO/9/29).
Printed without the figure in Johann Philipp von Wurzelbau, 'Observatio Mercurii sub sole visi, ultimo Octobris 1690. Stil. vet. Habita Noribergae’, Phil. Trans., vol. 16, no. 192 (1691), pp. 483-85.
Printed without the figure in Johann Philipp von Wurzelbau, 'Observatio Mercurii sub sole visi, ultimo Octobris 1690. Stil. vet. Habita Noribergae’, Phil. Trans., vol. 16, no. 192 (1691), pp. 483-85.
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