Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15691

    Transit of Mercury

    Date
    1 December 1631
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p2
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 222mm
    width (page): 167mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > Solar system
          > planet
             > Mercury
    space
       > Solar system
          > Sun
    Description
    A figure of the transit of Mercury on 7 November 1631, in a letter of Johann Remoquietanus to the Archduke Leopold of Austria (physician and mathematician to the Archduke), dated 1 December 1631. This copy of the letter is in the hand of Hevelius.
    Related fellows
    Johannes Hevelius (1611 - 1687, German/Polish) , Astronomer
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