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Tables showing the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites predicted to occur in 1737. Also an engraved and an original table showing configurations of Jupiter's satellites when eclipses might be visible in London in 1737.

Subject: Astronomy

Read to the Royal Society on 4 November 1736

The latter published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The apparent times of such of the immersions and emersions of Jupiter's satellites, as are visable at London in the year 1737'

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CLP/8ii/78
Earliest possible date
1736
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Ink on paper
Page extent
17 pages
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Manuscript
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James Hodgson

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James Hodgson, Tables, 'Apparent Times of the Immersions and Emersions of Jupiters Satellites which will happen in the year 1737 computed to the meridian of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich' by James Hodgson, 1736, CLP/8ii/78, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_8ii_78/tables-apparent-times-of-the-immersions-and-emersions-of-jupiters-satellites-which-will-happen-in-the-year-1737-computed-to-the-meridian-of-the-royal-observatory-at-greenwich-by-james-hodgson, accessed on 14 October 2024

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