Jupiter, Saturn and sunspots
Date
1671
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
Object type
Article identifier
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 213mm
width (page): 150mm
width (page): 150mm
Subject
Content object
space
> Solar system
> planet
> Jupiter
space
> Solar system
> planet
> Saturn
space
> Solar system
> Sun
> Solar system
> planet
> Jupiter
space
> Solar system
> planet
> Saturn
space
> Solar system
> Sun
Description
3 figures from issue 78 of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Figure I shows the planet Jupiter, figure II shows the planet Saturn, and figure III shows eleven sunspots on the surface of the sun, as observed on different days throughout the months of August and September.
Illustrations to ‘An extract of letter, written from Hamburg Novemb. 1. 1671, by the learned Doctor Fogelius to the publisher, concerning the spots of the sun returned; and the last eclipse of the moon’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 6, issue 78 (18 December 1671).
Figure I. Original illustration can be found in a letter from Martin Fogel to Henry Oldenburg 1 November 1671, Early Letters of the Royal Society EL/F1/34, and is copied in the Letter Book Copy LBC/5/32b.
Figure II. Original illustration can be found in a letter from Johannes Hevelius to Henry Oldenburg 7 October 1671, Early Letters of the Royal Society, EL/H2/28, and is copied in the Letter Book Original LBO/5/12.
Figure III. Original illustration can be found in a letter from Johannes Hevelius to Henry Oldenburg 7 October 1671, Early Letters of the Royal Society, EL/H2/27, and is copied in the Letter Book Original LBO/5/2.
Figure I shows the planet Jupiter, figure II shows the planet Saturn, and figure III shows eleven sunspots on the surface of the sun, as observed on different days throughout the months of August and September.
Illustrations to ‘An extract of letter, written from Hamburg Novemb. 1. 1671, by the learned Doctor Fogelius to the publisher, concerning the spots of the sun returned; and the last eclipse of the moon’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 6, issue 78 (18 December 1671).
Figure I. Original illustration can be found in a letter from Martin Fogel to Henry Oldenburg 1 November 1671, Early Letters of the Royal Society EL/F1/34, and is copied in the Letter Book Copy LBC/5/32b.
Figure II. Original illustration can be found in a letter from Johannes Hevelius to Henry Oldenburg 7 October 1671, Early Letters of the Royal Society, EL/H2/28, and is copied in the Letter Book Original LBO/5/12.
Figure III. Original illustration can be found in a letter from Johannes Hevelius to Henry Oldenburg 7 October 1671, Early Letters of the Royal Society, EL/H2/27, and is copied in the Letter Book Original LBO/5/2.
Related fellows
Johannes Hevelius (1611 - 1687, German/Polish) , Astronomer
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