Halley and his maps of the Total Eclipses of 1715 and 1724

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Jun 1999

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Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage (ISSN 1440-2807), Vol. 2, No. 1, p. 39-54 (1999).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Eclipses, Solar, Halley, Edmond, History, England

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Edmond Halley was perhaps the first, in 1715, to draw the path of an eclipse as seen from above, looking down at the Earth's surface. I compare four eclipse-path maps drawn for Halley: one before the 1715 eclipse, one with a corrected path after the eclipse and including the predicted path for the 1724 eclipse, a reissue of that map just before the latter eclipse, and a different map for that latter eclipse. These maps are in the collection of the Houghton Library of Harvard University. For comparison, I provide a current map of the 1999 total solar-eclipse path, which is similar to that of 1724.

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