Satellites of Jupiter
Date
7/17 July 1673
Creator
John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719, British) , Astronomer
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p202
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 313mm
width (page): 196mm
width (page): 196mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Figure in a copy of a letter from John Flamsteed to Jean Dominique Cassini concerning the satellites of Jupiter. This was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 8, no. 96 (July 1673), pp. 6094-7000, using the type font upper-case 'O' for Jupiter and asterisks for the satellites (as it was shown in Galileo Galilei's Sidereus Nuncius (1610)).
Copied from ELF/F1/98/002-04.
Copied from ELF/F1/98/002-04.
Object history
Oldenburg's note in the margin reads: 'The original of this letter, though left upon, when sent to H.O. was transmitted to Sgnr Cassini'.
Related fellows
John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719, British) , Astronomer
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Cesar Francois Cassini de Thury (1714 - 1784, French) , Astronomer
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Cesar Francois Cassini de Thury (1714 - 1784, French) , Astronomer
Associated place