Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.18668

    Sunspots and Saturn

    Date
    1671
    Creator
    Unknown, Engraver
    Creator - Organisation
    The Royal Society, Publisher
    Object type
    Article identifier
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (page): 213mm
    width (page): 150mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > Solar system
          > Sun
    space
       > Solar system
          > planet
             > Saturn
    Description
    9 figures from issue 78 of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

    Figures I-VIII provide detail views of various sunspots as observed on the sun’s surface, and; figure IX shows the planet Saturn.

    Illustrations to ‘The observations of the spots of the sun, made at the Royal Academy of Paris, continued’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 6, issue 78 (18 December 1671).
    Associated place
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       > Europe
          > United Kingdom
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