Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15564

    Parhelia

    Date
    9 November 1698
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
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    Manuscript page number
    p1
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 307mm
    width (page): 190mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Figure of parhelia in an extract of a letter from Samuel Petto, 'a grave divine', observed at Sudbury, Suffolk, 28 August 1698. This was communicated by Dr Beverley to the Royal Society on 9 November 1698, and printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 21, no. 250.
    Object history
    9 November 1698, 'Dr Beverley sent an account of the Parelij seen in Suffolk for which he was order'd the thanks of the Society & Dr Wallis was desired to give his thoughts of it' (JBO/10/87).

    Samuel Petto, ‘Concerning some Parhelia seen at Sudbury in Suffolk 28 August 1698’, Phil. Trans. vol. 21, no. 250 (March 1699), pp. 107-08.
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