Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15604

    Transit of Jupiter

    Date
    4 March 1676
    Creator
    John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719, British) , Astronomer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p2
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 190mm
    width (page): 149mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > Solar system
          > planet
             > Jupiter
    Description
    Figure from John Flamsteed's observation on the transit of Jupiter in his letter to Cassini. This is a copy of the letter in Henry Oldenburg's hand. The letter was printed as John Flamsteed, ‘Answer to the former three letters, containing also some celestial observations’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 11, no. 123 (1676), pp. 565-67, with reference to fig. 2 at p. 566. The woodcut is printed at p. 557 in the previous article.
    Object history
    John Flamsteed, ‘Answer to the former three letters, containing also some celestial observations’, Phil. Trans., vol. 11, no. 123 (1676), pp. 565-67 (ref. to fig. 2 at p. 566). The woodcut is printed at p. 557 in the previous article.
    Related fellows
    John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719, British) , Astronomer
    Cesar Francois Cassini de Thury (1714 - 1784, French) , Astronomer
    Associated place
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          > United Kingdom
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