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RefNoEL/C1/54
LevelItem
TitleLetter, from Jean Dominique Cassini to Henry Oldenburg
CreatorCassini; Jean Dominique (1625-1712); Italian/French mathematician; astronomer; engineer; astrologer
Date9 January 1672
DescriptionCassini provides his observations of a possible satellite of Saturn during October and November 1671; concerning Robert Hooke's observations of a lunar eclipse during September; Cassini gives his explanation of why Saturn looked round
Read to the Royal Society on 11 January 1672
LanguageLatin
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialTranscribed in LBO/5/118
Transcribed and translated in 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall, vol 8, p 423
RelatedRecordEL/C1/57
URLDescriptionAlso available on Early Modern Letters Online
URLhttp://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/6976f71e-a93f-4c44-9007-de2708d7c6db
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8001Oldenburg; Henry (c1619 - 1677); scientific correspondentc1619 - 1677
NA8383Cassini; Jean Dominique (1625 - 1712); astronomer1625 - 1712
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