Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15617

    Moon's position relative to the Pleiades

    Date
    8 November 1671
    Creator
    John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719, British) , Astronomer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p1
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 202mm
    width (page): 191mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > Solar system
          > Moon
    Description
    Astronomical prediction of the Moon's position relative to the Pleiades. Printed in John Flamsteed, 'De lunae ad Pleiadas reliquas applicationbus', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 6, no. 79 (January 1672), pp. 3061-63 (woodcut at p. 3063).
    Transcription
    Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'
    Transcribed by the Making Visible project
    Related fellows
    John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719, British) , Astronomer
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