Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.18884

    Geometric diagrams, solar eclipse

    Date
    1700
    Creator
    Unknown, Engraver
    Creator - Organisation
    The Royal Society, Publisher
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    Dimensions
    height (page): 150mm
    width (page): 213mm
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    Three figures from issue 265 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

    Figures I-II. Geometric diagrams illustrating Abraham de Moivre’s interpretation of the Lune of Hippocrates. Illustrations to ‘III. The dimension of the solids generated by the conversion of Hipppocrates's Lunula, and of its parts about several axes, with the surfaces generated by that conversion, by Ab. De Moivre, F. R. S’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 22, issue 265 (August 1700).

    Figure III. Astronomical chart depicting the phases of a lunar eclipse, as observed by Johann Philipp von Wurzelbauer from Nuremberg, November 1699. Illustration to ‘II. A letter sent to the publisher of these transactions, concerning an abstract of some observations made of the Eclipse of the Sun, September 13,1699’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 22, issue 265 (August 1700). Original proof of this image can be found in MS/131/118, p.134.

    Abraham de Moivre (1667-1754), French mathematician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1697, and; Johann Philipp von Wurzelbauer (1651-1725), German astronomer, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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    Abraham de Moivre (1667 - 1754, French) , Mathematician
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