Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15579

    Solar eclipse

    Date
    25 July 1676
    Creator
    Jean Dominique Cassini (1625 - 1712, Italian) , Astronomer, Astronomer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p2
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 230mm
    width (page): 169mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > Solar system
          > Sun
    Description
    Diagram for Cassini's calculations for the beginning and end of the eclipse of the sun, which occurred on 1 June 1676, because clouds obscured direct observations of it. From his letter to Henry Oldenburg dated 25 July 1676.

    This was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 11, no. 127 (1676), pp. 664-67, fig. 6.

    There is a copy at LBO/28/339.
    Object history
    Printed as fig. 6 in J. D. Cassini, 'Observation of the solar eclipse', Phil. Trans. vol. 11, no. 127 (July 1676), 664-67.
    Related fellows
    Jean Dominique Cassini (1625 - 1712, Italian) , Astronomer, Astronomer
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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