Accession No

3814

Brief Description

Solar eclipse chart for 1764, giving details for totality in Britain, Ireland, Netherlands, and France, English, c. 1764

Origin

England

Maker

Class

prints; astronomy; cartography

Earliest Date

1764

Latest Date

1764

Inscription Date

1764

Material

paper

Dimensions

204 x 250mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Inscription

Types and Phases ofthe Annular Eclipse of the Sun, which will happen April the 1st. 1764. (top of print)

Description Notes

Solar eclipse chart for 1764, giving details for totality in Britain, Ireland, Netherlands, and France, English, c. 1764.

The chart gives details of the times of the eclipse in Greenwich, Oxford, Cambridge, York, Berwick, Dublin, Gravesend, Canterbury, Hague, Paris and Auxere with diagrams of the appearance in each place. More information is given for Greenwich than for the other places. There are also diagrams of the mechanisms creating a total eclipse of the sun and an annular eclipse of the sun.

condition - good

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