Diagram
Date
1590
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p15r
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 323mm
width (page): 209mm
width (page): 209mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Diagram illustrating triangulation of the position of a star, from a copy of a manuscript of Tycho Brahe's comet observations from the years 1580, 1585, 1590 and 1596. This was a copy made from an original manuscript in the library of the King of Denmark, through the mediation of 'Mr John Phillip Borneman', minister of the Danish Church, and given by Isaac Newton to the Royal Society on 25 October 1722.
Philip Julius Borneman, minister of the Danish Church in London, was proposed to a Fellowship by Newton immediately after this gift on the same day, which may indicate that the minutes has erroneously recorded Philip Julius's name as the person who obtained the manuscript.
Philip Julius Borneman, minister of the Danish Church in London, was proposed to a Fellowship by Newton immediately after this gift on the same day, which may indicate that the minutes has erroneously recorded Philip Julius's name as the person who obtained the manuscript.
Object history
25 October 1722, 'The President [Isaac Newton] gave the Society a manuscript containing four setts of Observations never yet printed made by Ticho Brahee on the four several Comets which appeared in the years 1580, 1585, 1590, & 1596 being an Authentic Copy of the original Manuscript in the King of Denmark's Library procured with the King's leave by the interest of Mr John Phillip Borneman Minister of the Danish Church, for the service of the Society.
The President ordered the manuscript to be printed, the better to prepare the Observations from being lost, and proposed the publication of it by parts in the Transactions to be a proper way of doing it. And accordingly the said manuscript was refered to Dr Halley to peruse and report the Contents, and see whither any thing be needfull to prepare it for the Press.
Mr Borneman was recommended by the President to be chosen a member' (JBO/13/213-14).
The President ordered the manuscript to be printed, the better to prepare the Observations from being lost, and proposed the publication of it by parts in the Transactions to be a proper way of doing it. And accordingly the said manuscript was refered to Dr Halley to peruse and report the Contents, and see whither any thing be needfull to prepare it for the Press.
Mr Borneman was recommended by the President to be chosen a member' (JBO/13/213-14).
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