Reference number | EL/C1/73 |
Level | Item |
Title | Jean Dominique Cassini, dated at Paris, to Henry Oldenburg |
Creator | Cassini; Jean Dominique (1625-1712); Italian/French mathematician; astronomer; engineer; astrologer |
Date | 12 February 1676 |
Description | Cassini sends the position of the eclipse of the first satellite of Jupiter at the meridian of Paris in 1677 so that this eclipse can be observed at St Helena island in the south Atlantic in order to determine the difference between the two meridians |
Language | Latin |
Extent | 3 sides |
Format | Manuscript |
Place origin | Paris, le-de-France, France |
Origin coordinates | 48.85341, 2.3488 |
Access status | Open |
Related material | Transcribed in LBO/28/345 Transcribed and translated in 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall, vol 13, p 67 |
URL description | Also available on Early Modern Letters Online |
URL | http://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/a0f363d6-c66e-4182-a2a6-1eb35f8ba407 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | Name | Dates |
NA8383 | Cassini; Jean Dominique (1625 - 1712); astronomer | 1625 - 1712 |
NA8001 | Oldenburg; Henry (c1619 - 1677); scientific correspondent | c1619 - 1677 |