Lunar eclipse
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                                29 October 1697
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                p19
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Dimensions
                            
                            
                                height (page): 298mm
width (page): 185mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (page): 185mm
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                                Description
                            
                            
                                Diagrams of a lunar eclipse observed by Cassini on 29 October 1697 at Rotterdam. This observation was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 20, no. 236 (1698).
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
                                Object history
                            
                            
                                Printed as figs 2-8: lunar eclipse observed in Rotterdam, 29 October 1697, in  J. Cassini, ‘Eclipsis lunaris observatio, facta Roterodami die 29 Octobris Anni 1697 N. S.’, Phil. Trans., vol. 20, no. 236 (January 1698), pp. 15-28.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
                                Related fellows
                            
                            
                                Jean Dominique Cassini (1625 - 1712, Italian) , Astronomer, Astronomer
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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