Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16746

    Diagram of the nature of the sun and moon's eclipse

    Date
    late 17th - early 18th century
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    f24 p92
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 192mm
    width (page): 151mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > Solar system
          > Moon
    space
       > Solar system
          > Sun
    Description
    Diagram of the nature of the sun and moon's eclipse.

    In papers collected by Robert Southwell.
    Object history
    This manuscript was sold at Sotheby's in June 1893 (Phillips sale) and acquired by the Royal Society from a purchaser of that lot. Some of the material is signed by Robin Bacon, who was also Robert Boyle's scribe (see William Poole, 'Sir Robert Southwell's Dialogue on Thomas Burnet's Theory of the Earth: "C & S Discourse of Mr Burnett's Theory of the Earth" (1684): Contexts and an Edition', The Seventeenth Century, 23 (2008), 72-104).
    Related fellows
    Robert Southwell (1635 - 1702, British) , Diplomat
    Associated place
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          > United Kingdom
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