Paper cutting of Saturn
Date
16 November 1665
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p2
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 145mm
width (page): 205mm
width (page): 205mm
Subject
Content object
Description
A paper cutting of Saturn as observed on 13 October 1665 at Mamhead near Exeter by William Balle. The original cutting was enclosed in a letter dated 16 November 1665 to Henry Oldenburg by Robert Moray, who had been encouraging Balle to make astronomical observations. Moray asked that another figure be cut and sent on to the president, Viscount Brouncker.
Balle's original cut is now lost. Oldenburg made copies, one of which was stuck in the Early Letters with the letter from Balle to Oldenburg of the 14th of April 1666. Another copy of this figure was sent by Oldenburg to Christian Huygens on 21 November 1665. Balle's observation was printed, with a figure, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 1, no. 9 (1665).
Balle's original cut is now lost. Oldenburg made copies, one of which was stuck in the Early Letters with the letter from Balle to Oldenburg of the 14th of April 1666. Another copy of this figure was sent by Oldenburg to Christian Huygens on 21 November 1665. Balle's observation was printed, with a figure, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 1, no. 9 (1665).
Transcription
Oct. 13. hor. 6. seen at Mamhead near Exeter in Devon by W[illiam] B[alle], with a telescope near 38 foot long and a double eyeglasse
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
Fig. 3 in William Ball, ‘Of an Observation, not Long Since Made in England, of Saturn’, Phil. Trans. vol. 1, no. 9 (1665), pp. 152-53.
Related fellows
William Balle (1627 - 1690, British) , Astronomer
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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