Solar eclipse
Date
1699
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 213mm
width (page): 150mm
width (page): 150mm
Subject
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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.
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
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