Sunspots
Date
1671
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
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Article identifier
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 213mm
width (page): 150mm
width (page): 150mm
Subject
Content object
Description
5 figures from issue 75 of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, including an astronomical chart showing the sun with four spots over its surface [above], and; detail views of the sunspots themselves [below].
Inscribed: ‘Macule in Sole die 11.12. et 13 Augusti 1671’
Illustrations to ‘New observations of spots in the Sun; made at the Royal Academy of Paris, the 11, 12 and 13th of August 1671’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 6, issue 75 (18 September 1671).
Inscribed: ‘Macule in Sole die 11.12. et 13 Augusti 1671’
Illustrations to ‘New observations of spots in the Sun; made at the Royal Academy of Paris, the 11, 12 and 13th of August 1671’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 6, issue 75 (18 September 1671).
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