Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.18680

    Eclipse

    Date
    1674
    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
          > Moon
    Description
    Figure depicting the eclipsing of the setting sun by the moon, as seen by Johannes Hevelius from Malbork, Poland, then Marienburg.

    Illustration to ‘A certain phaenomenon, seen by Monsieur Hevelius Feb. 5. 1674. St. no. not far from Marienburgh in Borussia, about the sun, a little before his setting and the moons conjunction. And the suns eclipse’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 9, issue 102 (31 December 1674). Original illustration was first shown at a meeting of the Society on 23 April 1674, is recorded in Letter Book Original of the Royal Society LBO/7/28, and copied into Letter Book Copy LBC/7.

    Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687) Polish astronomer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1664.
    Related fellows
    Johannes Hevelius (1611 - 1687, German/Polish) , Astronomer
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > Poland
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > United Kingdom
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