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Solar eclipses observed at Greenwich during the time of Halley, Bradley & Bliss (1720-1764)

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The eclipse of 1722, December 8

 

The total eclipse of 1724, May 22

This was a total eclipse in England, but not at Greenwich. It would appear that the weather across the whole country was unfavorable as there is only one known report of the eclipse having been observed.

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Shortly after the total eclipse of 1715 Halley issued a second map showing the actual path of the eclipse together with the predicted path of the total eclipse due in the evening of 11 May 1724. This copy was reissued with a different heading shortly before the 1724 eclipse. Engraved and sold by John Senex. © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum. Reproduced under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), details below

 

Acknowlegements

The 1715/1724 eclipse map is reproduced under the terms of a Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) courtesy of The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum. Object Number: 1980-360