Lunar eclipse
Date
1682
Creator
Johannes Hevelius (1611 - 1687, German/Polish) , Astronomer
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p7a
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Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 146mm
width (page): 155mm
width (page): 155mm
Subject
Description
Printed image of the surface of the Moon, with phases of the lunar eclipse entered with brown ink.
This lunar eclipse was observed on 21 and 22 February 1682 by Johannes Hevelius in Gdansk. His letter was read to the Royal Society on 12 July 1682, and the figure was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 13, no. 146 (April 1683).
This lunar eclipse was observed on 21 and 22 February 1682 by Johannes Hevelius in Gdansk. His letter was read to the Royal Society on 12 July 1682, and the figure was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 13, no. 146 (April 1683).
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 12 July 1682, ‘Mr. Aston read a letter to himself from Mr. Hevelius’ (Birch 4:155). Birch has an additional note: ‘In the journal book, vol. 7. p. 92, there is no farther account of this letter; but it was probably that inserted in the letter book, vol. 9, 214. dated at Dantzick, ipso solstitii aestivi die 1682, wherein Mr. Hevelius complained, that his name had been left out of the Society’s yearly catalogue of 1681.’
Printed in J. Hevelius, ‘Eclipsis Lunae Totalis cum morâ, Anno 1682, die 21 & 22 Feb.’, Phil. Trans. vol. 13, no. 146 (April 1683), pp. 146-51
Printed in J. Hevelius, ‘Eclipsis Lunae Totalis cum morâ, Anno 1682, die 21 & 22 Feb.’, Phil. Trans. vol. 13, no. 146 (April 1683), pp. 146-51
Related fellows
Johannes Hevelius (1611 - 1687, German/Polish) , Astronomer
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