Wright 1737

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	item:- British Library : Maps 177.d.1 (c)
	Map, The Passage of the Annular Penumbra over Scotland etc, predicting the track of an annular eclipse of the sun over Great Britain, 18 February 1737, scale about 41 miles to 1 inch, by Thomas Wright, Durham, published by John Senex, London, 1737. A shaded band, to show the passage of the shadow of the moon, runs SW to NE across Ireland, northern England, and southern Scotland, the centre line passing through Edinburgh. An oval shadow of the moon is drawn at totality over Edinburgh. Diagrams at 52 places, overlapped circles, show the 'figure of the eclipse' ie how much of the sun is covered, within and without the band of totality. Carlisle has a total eclipse.
		Wright 1737
	map feature:-	plain cartouche & compass rose & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales (trapezoidal projection) & lat and long grid (1x1degree) & sea plain & coast line & rivers & lakes & settlements (few) & eclipse
	inscription:-	printed plain cartouche, upper left The Passage of the / ANNULAR PENUMBRA over SCOTLAND &c / In the Central Eclipse of the Sun on the 18th. / day of February 1736/7 in the Afternoon. / Humbly Inscrib'd to the President, Council and / Fellows of the ROYAL SOCIETY By / Thomas Wright / of the City of Durham.
	inscription:-	Sold by John Senex at the Globe overagainst St Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet.
	inscription:-	printed right centre NB. it must not be expected that a Construction of this kind can come so near as that of Calculation; when in the last Eclipse of the Moon, it was Observed to begin even within the minute as Mr. Wright had Calculated it.
	scale line:-	85 miles = 52.8 mm
	scale:-	1 to 2600000 ? (1 to 2590800 from scale line)
	wxh, sheet:-	51.5x40cm
	wxh, map:-	505x377mm
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