A Full Account of the last Total Eclipse of the Sun
April 22.d 1715. Together with a Calculation and Construction of y.e next great Eclipse of y.e Sun May 11.th 1724 for Dublin, Bristol, London, Paris & Venice. By W. Whiston M.A. Engraved by John Senex.
London
John Senex
1715
Engraved print in good condition, minor restoration to folds.
480 by 510mm. (19 by 20 inches).
11269
notes:
Whiston's second eclipse "map" is a rather complicated geometrical depiction of the actual passage of the eclipse. As with Halley, Whiston produced both a predictive version of this sheet and then a second version to show the actual events. The dense text and complicated diagrams make this rather inaccessible, especially when compared to the simplicity of Halley's map. This may well account for its rarity, and for the fact that Whiston reverted to geographical types for his...
bibliography:
Unrecorded in ESTC; unrecorded in Armitage, Shadow of the Moon; unrecorded in Walters, English Broadsides of Early Eighteenth-Century Solar Eclipses; not traced in the BL; COPAC records only Manchester Chetham's Library, Gal.C.3.116(2).
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