Path of a comet
Date
19 March 1672
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p5
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 310mm
width (page): 203mm
width (page): 203mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Erich Mauritius (1631-1691), Professor of Law at the University of Kiel and Assessor to the Imperial Court, wrote in a letter to Henry Oldenburg dated 19 March 1672 at Speyer about a comet observed in Strasbourg (March 1672). Mauritius also tried to observe the comet with a telescope which he complained was poor. Mauritius reported that the comet was observed by Julius Reichelt (1637-1719), Professor of Mathematics at Strasbourg, and included a printed chart of it.
There are three copies of this print in the Royal Society's collections. This one, kept with the original letter, is not the one sent by Mauritius; the version sent by Mauritius is located at LBO/5/191b. There is another copy at LBO/5/191a. (See The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, ed. by A. Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall, 13 vols (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press; London: Taylor and Francis, 1965-86), VIII (1971), 603n.)
There are three copies of this print in the Royal Society's collections. This one, kept with the original letter, is not the one sent by Mauritius; the version sent by Mauritius is located at LBO/5/191b. There is another copy at LBO/5/191a. (See The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, ed. by A. Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall, 13 vols (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press; London: Taylor and Francis, 1965-86), VIII (1971), 603n.)
Transcription
Figur und Stand dess Cometen, Wie solcher den 12.22. und 13.23. Martii Anno 1672. nach der Sonnen Niedergang zu Strassburg observirt worden.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Related fellows
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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