Halley’s solar eclipse map

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A Description of the Passage of the Shadow of the Moon

over England as it was Observed in the late Total Eclipse of the SUN April 22.d 1715 Manè.' 'Engrav'd and Sold by Iohn Senex at the Globe in Salisbury Court near Fleetstreet'.

HALLEY, Edmond
London,
John Senex,
1715
Engraved print, slight foxing but otherwise in good condition
397 by 232mm. (15.75 by 9.25 inches).
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notes:

In 1715 Halley was the first astronomer to produce a scientific predictive map of an eclipse, and later that year he created this map as a sequel to the first, showing the passage of the eclipse as it actually happened. The text below explains his motive for producing the second map:

"Since the Publication of our Predictions of this Eclipse has had the desired effect, and many curious Persons have been excited thereby to communicate their Observations from most ...

bibliography:

bibliography:

ESTC N8531; unrecorded in Shirley, Printed Maps of the British Isles; Armitage, Shadow of the Moon, Map [4.1]: noting only the BL exemplar; Walters, English Broadsides of early Eighteenth-Century Solar Eclipses, p. 15-17 & fig. 5: Science Museum exemplar.

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