Jupiter
Date
7 August 1677
Creator
Jean Dominique Cassini (1625 - 1712, Italian) , Astronomer, Astronomer
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p3
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 233mm
width (page): 170mm
width (page): 170mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Cassini's figure of the zone Jupiter, described as similar to 'islands scattered along a river' (Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, ed. by Hall and Hall, vol. 13, p. 329), and its discs from Cassini's letter dated 7 August 1677 to Henry Oldenburg. Cassini states that he sends two copies of the configurations of the satellites of Jupiter for August and September, one copy being for Flamsteed, and that he will produce the remainder of the configurations for this year.
Cassini's letter was read at the meeting of 14 March 1678.
Cassini's letter was read at the meeting of 14 March 1678.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 14 March 1678, ‘Mr. Hooke then read a discourse of Signor Cassini, concerning his farther prosecuting of the discovery of the diurnal motion of Jupiter upon its axis by the spot observable in one of the belts; wherein were several very remarkable circumstances and discoveries’ (Birch 3:392).
Related fellows
Jean Dominique Cassini (1625 - 1712, Italian) , Astronomer, Astronomer
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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