Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15610

    Sunspots

    Date
    1 November 1671
    Creator
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p3
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 204mm
    width (page): 169mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > Solar system
          > Sun
    Description
    Observation by Heinrich Sivers (1626-1691) of the sunspots in August 1671 at Hamburg, enclosed in a letter by Martin Vogel/Fogel (1634-1675) to Henry Oldenburg dated 1 November 1671, Hamburg. This letter was read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 9 November 1671, and printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 6, no. 78 (December 1671), though this figure was not printed.

    There is a copy of this at LBC/5/32a.
    Transcription
    Macula in Sole observata Hamburgi diiebus Augusti Ao 1671
    Transcribed by the Making Visible project
    Object history
    At the meeting of the Royal Society on 9 November 1671, ‘A letter of Dr. Fogelius to Mr. Oldenburg, dated at Hamburgh 1 Novemb. 1671, was read, treating of the observations of the Solar spots returned (after they had passed the Sun’s hemisphere, that is hid from us) from August 26 to Sept. 5, O. S. inclusive; as also concerning some uncommon plants’ (Birch 2:489).

    Martin Fogel and Henry Sivers, 'An extract of a letter written from Hamburg November 1 1671 ... concerning the spots of the Sun; and the last Eclipse of the Moon, here communicated also in the same language, in which it was written', Phil. Trans. vol. 6, no. 78 (December 1671), pp. 3027-33.
    Related fellows
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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