Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16654

    Diagram of a globe

    Date
    22 March 1681
    Creator
    John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719, British) , Astronomer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    f52 p1r
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 307mm
    width (page): 194mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > Solar system
          > planet
             > Earth
    Description
    Diagram copied from Thomas Burnet's Telluris theoria sacra (London, 1681) to explain Burnet's idea of how the earth was originally created. From a letter by John Flamsteed to Richard Towneley dated 22 March 1681.
    Related fellows
    John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719, British) , Astronomer
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > United Kingdom
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