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May 22, 1724.—The total solar eclipse which occurred on May 22, 1724 (May 11, O.S.), was the last total eclipse seen in England. A copy of Halley's map of the path of the shadow crossing Ireland, south-west England, France, and southern Germany is to be seen in the Astronomical Gallery at the Science Museum. The eclipse was observed by Maraldi and J. Cassini at Trianon and by Delisle at Paris. At Trianon the period of totality was 2 minutes 16 seconds. Venus, Mercury, and a few of the fixed stars were visible to the naked eye, and it was noted that “a corona of light was seen to encompass the dark body of the moon during the totality of the eclipse.” According to a note in NATURE of April 29, 1875, p. 507, an account of the eclipse was given in Stukeley's “Itinerarium Curiosum.”
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S., E. Calendar of Discovery and Invention. Nature 119, 765 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119765a0
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