| RefNo | PT/5/13 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Paper, 'On the solar eclipse which is said to have been predicted by Thales' by Francis Baily |
| Date | November 1810 |
| Description | 26 manuscript pages and one plate showing the path of the moon's shadow over Turkey during the eclipse on 30 September 610 BC.
Subject: Astronomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the solar eclipse which is said to have been predicted by Thales'.
Communicated by Humphry Davy. Read 14 March 1811.
Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 1, 1832.
Some footnotes are in Greek. |
| Extent | 27p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1800.0227 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1811.0014 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/5/13/1 |
| PT/5/13/2 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6486 | Baily; Francis (1774 - 1844); astronomer | 1774 - 1844 |
| NA8200 | Davy; Sir; Humphry (1778 - 1829); chemist | 1778 - 1829 |