{"id":396,"date":"2015-10-19T03:48:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T03:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/?page_id=396"},"modified":"2015-10-19T03:48:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T03:48:30","slug":"historical-documents","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/historical-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Documents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-396 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/historical-documents\/attachment\/copernicusderev\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/CopernicusDeRev-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-404\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-404'>\n\t\t\t\tCopernicus De Rev\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/historical-documents\/attachment\/keplerlaw1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/KeplerLaw1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-403\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-403'>\n\t\t\t\tThe title page of Kepler&#8217;s &#8220;Astronomia Nova&#8221; (1609),\nin which he advanced his first two laws.\n(Courtesy of Jay M. Pasachoff)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/historical-documents\/attachment\/keplerlaw3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/KeplerLaw3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-402\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-402'>\n\t\t\t\tThe title page of Kepler&#8217;s &#8220;Harmonices Mundi&#8221; (1619),\nin which he advanced his third law.\n(Courtesy of Jay M. Pasachoff)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/historical-documents\/attachment\/rudolphinetable\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/RudolphineTable-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-401\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-401'>\n\t\t\t\tThe title page of Kepler&#8217;s &#8220;Rudolphine Tables,&#8221; \nfrom which he predicted transits \nof Mercury and of Venus in 1631.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/historical-documents\/attachment\/solarsystem_latin\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/Solarsystem_Latin-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-400\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-400'>\n\t\t\t\tCopernicus&#8217;s famous sun-centered diagram\nfrom his &#8220;De Revolutionibus&#8221; (1543).\n(Courtesy of Jay M. Pasachoff)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/historical-documents\/attachment\/solarsystem_english\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/Solarsystem_english-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-399\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-399'>\n\t\t\t\tDigges&#8217;s version, the first in English, of Copernicus&#8217;s\nsun-centered diagram, published in several editions \nstarting in 1576. (Courtesy of Jay M. Pasachoff)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/historical-documents\/attachment\/veneristable\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/VenerisTable-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-398\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-398'>\n\t\t\t\tKepler: from the Rudolphine Tables (1627)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/historical-documents\/attachment\/navysignature\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/navysignature-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-397\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-397'>\n\t\t\t\tCover of the US Naval Observatory book \n&#8220;Instructions for Observing the Transit of Venus&#8221;\nwith the signature of Truman Henry Safford,\nDirector of Williams College&#8217;s \nHopkins Observatory from 1876-1902.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":971,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-396","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/396\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}