Solar eclipse
Date
1675
Creator
Johannes Hevelius (1611 - 1687, German/Polish) , Astronomer
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Manuscript page number
p3
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 182mm
width (page): 169mm
width (page): 169mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Printed chart on which phases of a solar eclipse are marked in by hand. This solar eclipse was observed on 23 June 1675 at Gdansk by Johannes Hevelius. It was reported to the Royal Society on 6 April 1676. The description and table of data were printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 11, no. 127 (1676), pp. 660-61, but not this figure.
Object history
6 April 1676, ‘Mr. Oldenburg read a letter to himself from Mr. Hevelius, dated at Dantzick, 11th March 1675/6, complaining of the animadversions made by Mr. Hooke upon his Machina coelestis, and intimating his resolution to answer them; sending also an observation of his of a phaenomenon of Saturn made 14th August 1675, wherein the body of that planet appeared beneath the ring; together with his observation of the solar eclipse of 23rd June, 1675' (Birch 3:313).
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