Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15692

    Occultation of Jupiter

    Date
    1686
    Creator
    Johannes Hevelius (1611 - 1687, German/Polish) , Astronomer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p5
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 186mm
    width (page): 160mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > Solar system
          > planet
             > Jupiter
    Description
    Printed image of the surface of the Moon, with the occulation of Jupiter added by hand in ink.

    This occultation of Jupiter was observed on 10 April 1686 by Johannes Hevelius in Gdansk. The textual account and charts of his observation were printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 16, no. 183 (January 1687).
    Transcription
    Occulatio Jovis
    Transcribed by the Making Visible project
    Related fellows
    Johannes Hevelius (1611 - 1687, German/Polish) , Astronomer
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > Poland
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