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RefNoAP/38/20
LevelFile
TitleUnpublished paper, 'Descrizione dell' osservatorio del Collegio Romano' [Description of the observatory of the Roman College] by P A [Angelo] Secchi
Date1856
DescriptionSecchi shares a physical description of the new observatory of the Roman College, including the meridian and equatorial rooms and the equipment they contain.

Includes two figures relating to the construction of the observatory.

Subject: Civil engineering

Communicated by George Rennie.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 8 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Description of the observatory of the Collegio Romano at Rome'.
LanguageItalian
Extent12p
FormatDrawing
Manuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1856.0029
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA3766Secchi; Angelo (1818 - 1878)1818 - 1878
NA3414Rennie; George (1791 - 1866)1791 - 1866
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