Comets
Date
1599
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p20v
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 321mm
width (page): 208mm
width (page): 208mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Drawing showing the route of a comet. In Tycho Brahe, Observationes cometae anni MDXCVI, presented by Isaac Newton on 25 October 1722.
Transcription
Haec non in meteoris sed in apographo.
Vidi ego Cometam hunc primum diae 14. Hafniae et deinde duobus sequentibus 15 et 16 reliqua Uraniburgi observavi, semper avertebat caudam a sole et fere aequaliter, quorum progressus est quasi spatio 3 gradium, idque in areu circuli maximi.
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Vidi ego Cometam hunc primum diae 14. Hafniae et deinde duobus sequentibus 15 et 16 reliqua Uraniburgi observavi, semper avertebat caudam a sole et fere aequaliter, quorum progressus est quasi spatio 3 gradium, idque in areu circuli maximi.
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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).
Related fellows
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727, British) , Natural philosopher
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