Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15533

    Lunar eclipse

    Date
    29 October 1697
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p19
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 298mm
    width (page): 185mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > Solar system
          > Moon
    Description
    Diagrams of a lunar eclipse observed by Cassini on 29 October 1697 at Rotterdam. This observation was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 20, no. 236 (1698).
    Object history
    Printed as figs 2-8: lunar eclipse observed in Rotterdam, 29 October 1697, in J. Cassini, ‘Eclipsis lunaris observatio, facta Roterodami die 29 Octobris Anni 1697 N. S.’, Phil. Trans., vol. 20, no. 236 (January 1698), pp. 15-28.
    Related fellows
    Jean Dominique Cassini (1625 - 1712, Italian) , Astronomer, Astronomer
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > Netherlands
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > France
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