Astronomical diagram
Date
19 January 1677
Creator
John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719, British) , Astronomer
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Manuscript page number
f23 p3r
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 232mm
width (page): 210mm
width (page): 210mm
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Description
Diagram of a spherical projection to calculate eclipses, in a letter from John Flamsteed to Richard Towneley dated 19 January 1677. This was printed in Flamsteed's Doctrine of the Sphere (1680), in which he acknowledges the priority of this projection to Christopher Wren.
Object history
Also printed in J. Flamsteed, Doctrine of the Sphere (London: A. Godbid and J. Playford, 1680), plate between pp. 28 and 29.
Related fellows
John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719, British) , Astronomer
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