Sunspots
Date
1 November 1671
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p5
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height (page): 200mm
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), with this figure.
There is a copy of this figure at LBC/5/32b.
There is a copy of this figure at LBC/5/32b.
Transcription
Macula Sole observata Hamburgi Anno 1671 diebus mensis Augusti
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).
Printed as tab. 2, fig. III, Sunspots observed 8 September 1671, Hamburg, in 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 (ref. to fig. 3 at p. 3033).
Printed as tab. 2, fig. III, Sunspots observed 8 September 1671, Hamburg, in 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 (ref. to fig. 3 at p. 3033).
Related fellows
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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