Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14784

    Saturn's satellite, a new star and retrograde motion

    Date
    3 December 1671
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p66
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 314mm
    width (page): 195mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > Solar system
          > planet
             > Saturn
    Description
    Figures relating to Cassini's observation of a new star near Saturn, communicated by Francis Vernon to Henry Oldenburg in a letter dated 3 December 1671. The diagrams, with comments, are supplied in the margin by Oldenburg.

    Copied from the original letter, EL/V/18. There is another copy at LBC/5/072.
    Related fellows
    Francis Vernon (1632 - 1677, British) , Traveller, Traveller
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > United Kingdom
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