Sunspots
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                                1 November 1671
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                p3
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                height (page): 204mm
width (page): 169mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (page): 169mm
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                                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.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            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
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            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.
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            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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