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RefNoPT/5/13/2
LevelItem
TitlePlate, 'The path of the moon's umbra in the eclipse which happened September 30 610 BC' by unknown artist
Date1810
DescriptionShadow of moon during eclipse drawn in graphite over a printed map of Turkey in Asia published by mapseller C [Charles] Smith. Shadow likely drawn by Baily.

Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the solar eclipse which is said to have been predicted by Thales'.

Read 14 March 1811.
Extent1p
FormatMap
PhysicalDescriptionGraphite on map printed on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1800.0227
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1811.0014
RelatedRecordPT/5/13
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6486Baily; Francis (1774 - 1844); astronomer1774 - 1844
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