Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15578

    Sunspots

    Date
    November 1676
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p9
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (page): 350mm
    width (page): 228mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > Solar system
          > Sun
    Description
    A print from a small tract, 'Description du mouvement que doit faire dans le Soleil une Tache sur la fin de Novembre 1676', sent with Cassini's letter to Henry Oldenburg dated 25 November 1676. The print shows the shapes of the sunspots on different days.
    Transcription
    Octob. 30
    Macula in Sole 1676
    Novemb. 1.
    Transcribed by the Making Visible project
    Object history
    J. D. Cassini, ‘Observation of Sun spot and Saturn’, Phil. Trans. vol. 11, no. 128 (August and September 1676), pp. 689-90 (ref. to Tab II, figs 2 & 3, p. 689; ref. to Tab II, fig. 4, p. 690).
    Related fellows
    Jean Dominique Cassini (1625 - 1712, Italian) , Astronomer, Astronomer
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > France
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