1737
Neuendorffer
http://www.go.ednet.ns.ca/~larry/planets/2bcocclt.htm
A Christmas Near Occultation - Venus & Jupiter , June 17, 2 BC
<<One of the most impressive conjunctions with the two brightest
planets passing each other in the sky. The full occultation only occured
in the far southern hemisphere. In the middle east, the two planets
were in contact at sunset (in the western sky). Venus passes Jupiter
at about 2' arc per hour. The eye has a resolution of 1' arc so
the two will appear as one only for a little more than 1 hour.>>
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Venus 8 year PENTAGRAM cycle
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The 8 year gap between deaths of Raphael April 6, 1520 Good Friday
[Venus as a morning star in Pisces near west. elongation]
& Durer April 6, 1528 Monday
[Venus as a Morning Star in Pisces near west. elongation]
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Gulliver
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Venus as M.S. in Pisces near west. elong. May 4, 1699 embarks
Venus Inf. Conj.: Nov.5, 1699 wrecks
(Anti-podes)
(Sunrise) Mercury Transit: May 6, 1707 at Fort
St. George
Venus Inf. Conj.: Nov.5, 1715 returns
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Exactly one 8 year Venus cycle after the Ft. St. George Mercury Transit:
April 22, 1715 (0.S.) London eclipse
Both events preceded by a Venus morning star
(Western elongation? Entering Aries?)
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEhistory/SE1715May03T.gif
<<The Moon’s umbra never passed over the city of London during
a period of 837 years between consecutive total solar eclipses
in the years 878 and 1715.>>
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April 22, 1715 (0.S.) total solar eclipse (London's last)
http://www.clocktower.demon.co.uk/eclipse99/#contents
http://www.jsb.be/eclipse/eng/observation.html
<<This eclipse is very important because it gave to Hedmond Halley the
opportunity to measure the exact position of the Moon, something that
had never been done. Halley describes the crown (he's the one who gave
it its name) and the chromosphere, the red zone of hydrogen situated
near the Sun.>>
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rhill/alpo/eclstuff/observeeclipses/chapter9.htm
<<Sir Edmund Halley is credited with making the first observations of
Baily’s beads during the eclipse of 22 April 1715. They were also seen
by Maclaurin from Edinburgh during the annular eclipse of 1 March
1737.>>
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From: Robin D.H. Walker (rd...@cus.cam.ac.uk)
Subject: Cambridge University Regulations
Newsgroups: cam.misc Date: 1996/02/06
1737: "all persons whatsoever who shall for gain in any playhouse,
booth, or otherwise, exhibit any stage play, interlude, shew, opera, or
other theatrical or dramatical performance, or act any part, or assist
therein [within the radius of 5 miles of Cambridge] shall be deemed
rogues and VAGABONDs" [Repealed by the Theatres Act 1843]
On 4th May, 1737, a gamekeeper named Morris tracked Turpin to Epping
Forest, but when he challenged him at gunpoint, Turpin drew his own gun
and shot Morris dead.
Gian Gastone de' Medici, 1671-1737, grand duke 1723-37, was
the last male member of the family.
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http://www.go.ednet.ns.ca/~larry/planets/1737occl.htm
What did John Bevis see on May 28, 1737?
(from "John Bevis and a Rare Occultation"
by Roger Sinnott and Jean Meuus
Sky and Telescope, September 1986, p220-222)
Bevis was an amateur but had access to the Greenwich Observatory. He
used one of the 24 foot focal length telescopes. His observations were
in the evening just at the end of astronomical twilight. At 9:44:00
he notes that Mercury is "no more distant than 1/10 part of Venus'
diameter Then Clouds cover the planets At 9:52:06 the clouds part
and "Venus shines out once more brightly; Mercury is in fact entirely
concealed behing Venus. But clouds catch up to Venus afresh, preventing
further contemplation of this rare spectacle." It is strange that
nowhere in his account does he mention how low on the horizon the two
planets are. At mid-occultation Venus would have been only 1.4o above
the theoretical horizon (that is about 3 apparent diameters of the
Moon)!!! And this was seen at Greenwich with London to the west. NOTE:
Bevis' clocks were 3 minutes 57 seconds too fast. Even in this one
observation of such a rare event, Bevis was not able to see Mercury
move behind Venus or emerge from the occultation. Observers farther
south would not have seen Mercury disappear behind Jupiter because
of the parallax.
http://www.go.ednet.ns.ca/~larry/planets/1818occ.htm
http://www.go.ednet.ns.ca/~larry/planets/2bcocclt.htm
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_Benjamin Franklin_ by Carl Van Doren p.133
<<In the _Gazette_ is Franklin's story of an outrageous episode which
though only a burlesque of the Masonic ritual was blamed on the Masons,
Franklin among them. Evan Jones, a chemist, had a gullible apprentice,
Daniel Rees, who wanted to be a Mason. Jones and some of his friends in
June 1737 pretended to initiate the boy. In the ceremony a bowl of
burning rum was thrown at him and he was fatally burned. Jones was
tried for murder and acquited; for manslaughter and found guilty, and
sentenced to be BURNED IN THE HAND. Bradford in the _Mercury_ charged
Franklin with having been present and having relished the tragic
buffoonery, including the blasphemous oath the boy had sworn. Franklin
answered the charges in his newspaper for 7-15 February 1738:
"Some time in June last Mr. Danby, Mr. Alrihs, and myself were
appointed by the Court of common Pleas as auditors to settle an affair
between Dr. Jones and Armstrong Smith. We met accordingly at a tavern in
Market Street on the Saturday morning before the tragedy was acted in
the doctor's cellar. Dr. Jones appeared, and R----n as his attoney but
Smith could not readily be found. While we waited for Smith in order to
hear both parties together, the doctor and R----n began to entertain us
with an account of some diversion they had lately had with the doctor's
apprentice, who being desirous of being made a Freemason, they had
persuaded him they could make him one, and accordingly had taught him
several ridiculous signs, words, and ceremonies, of which he was very
fond. 'Tis true I laughed (and perhaps heartily, as my manner is) at the
beginning of their relation; but when they came to those circumstances
of their giving him a violent PURGE, leading him to kiss J.'s
posteriors, and administering to him the diabolical oath which R----n
read to us, I grew indeed serious, as I suppose the most MERRY MAN
(not inclined to mischief) would on such an occasion. . .">>
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George Vertue's 1737 sketch of the Earl of Oxford
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Was Oxford's Portrait Shakespeare's?
by Richard Whalen
http://www.everreader.com/manindep.htm
<<Finally, a convergence of pictures of "Shakspeare" & Oxford in the
18th century may someday fit the pattern. At the point of convergence is
Edward Harley, whose library became the Harleian Collection. In 1737
Harley took the engraver George Vertue with him to see Stratford and the
monument in Trinity Church. Vertue sketched the monument but declined
to show the face of the monument's "Shakspeare" in his sketch.
Instead, he substituted a likeness based on the so-called Chandos
portrait of Shakespeare. He also put Harley into his sketch,
as a lone spectator of this bust with a substitute face.
As it happens, Harley was the 2nd earl of Oxford (second creation),
while his wife had connections to the 17th earl of Oxford (first
creation). She was the great-great-granddaughter of Oxford's favorite
cousin, the famous Horace de Vere. Also, she had inherited the
Welbeck portrait of the 17th Earl of Oxford, now at the
National Portrait Gallery.>>
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Art Neuendorffer