Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15642

    Sunspots

    Date
    5 February 1705
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p17
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 325mm
    width (page): 210mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > Solar system
          > Sun
    Description
    Figure III of the sunspots observed by Stephen Gray in January 1704. His letter to Hans Sloane on this observation was read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 14 February 1705.

    Copy at LBO/30/061.
    Object history
    14 February 1705, 'A Letter was Read from Mr Gray to Dr Sloane concerning some spots which he had observed in the Sun. Mr Hunt was order'd to send him Scheiner & Galileo on these subjects, he promising to return them in reasonable time' (JBO/11/64).
    Related fellows
    Stephen Gray (1666 - 1736, British) , Astronomer
    Hans Sloane (1660 - 1753, Irish) , Physician
    Associated place
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          > United Kingdom
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