Solar eclipse
Date
1699
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p134
Material
Dimensions
height (plate): 172mm
width (plate): 173mm
width (plate): 173mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Engraving of a diagram showing a solar eclipse of 13 September 1699 observed by Johann Philipp von Wurzelbau in Nuremberg, from the Acta Eruditorum (1699).
Transcription
Lettering at top Tab X ad A. 1699, pag. 544
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
‘A Letter Sent to the Publisher of These Transactions, concerning an Abstract of Some Observations Made of the Eclipse of the Sun, September 13. 1699’, Phil. Trans., vol. 22, no. 265 (1700-01), pp. 619-24 explains that there were few observations of the solar eclipse of 13 September 1699 in England because of the weather. The observation of Johann Philipp von Wurzelbau (1651-1725) was printed in Nuremberg (by J. A. Entre), but since the book could not be obtained, its abstract, as published in the Acta Eruditorum, was translated and ‘the Picture of the Eclipse exactly copied from the Author’ (Phil. Trans., ibid., p. 620).
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