Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15614

    Jupiter's position relative to the Moon

    Date
    13 May 1671
    Creator
    John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719, British) , Astronomer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p1
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 327mm
    width (page): 200mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > Solar system
          > planet
             > Jupiter
    space
       > Solar system
          > Moon
    Description
    Figure of Jupiter's position relative to the Moon predicted for 20 September 1671 by John Flamsteed in a letter to Henry Oldenburg. The letter was read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 18 May 1671.
    Object history
    At the meeting of the Royal Society on 18 May 1671, ‘Mr. Flamstead’s letter to Mr. Oldenburg, dated Derby May 13, 1671, was read, giving an account of the stellar eclipse May 6, 1671’ (Birch 2:482).
    Related fellows
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > United Kingdom
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