Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.18859

    Solar eclipse

    Date
    1699
    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
    Description
    Twelve figures depicting the phases of a solar eclipse observed by David Gregory in September 1699.

    Illustrations to ‘V. Part of a letter from Dr. David Gregory, to Dr. Sloane, dated Oxford, October 12. 1699. containing his observations of the eclipse of the sun on the 13th of September last’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 21, issue 256 (October 1699).

    David Gregory (c.1661 - 1708), British astronomer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1690.
    Related fellows
    David Gregory (1659 - 1708, British) , Astronomer, Astronomer
    Associated place
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          > United Kingdom
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