Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15867

    Satellites of Jupiter

    Date
    9 July 1714
    Creator
    James Pound (1669 - 1724, British) , Astronomer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p1
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 324mm
    width (page): 201mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > Solar system
          > planet
             > Jupiter
    Description
    Observations of the satellites of Jupiter made at Wanstead by James Pound, in a letter dated 9 July 1714 to Edmond Halley.

    James Pound (1669-1724) was a chaplain to the East India Company with astronomical interests, and was rector of Wanstead from 1707.
    Related fellows
    Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742, British) , Astronomer
    James Pound (1669 - 1724, British) , Clergyman
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > United Kingdom
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