Satellites of Jupiter
Date
7 July 1673
Creator
John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719, British) , Astronomer
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Manuscript page number
p4
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 321mm
width (page): 206mm
width (page): 206mm
Subject
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Description
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 used in Galileo Galilei's Sidereus Nuncius (1610)).
Copied in LBO/6/202-204.
Copied in LBO/6/202-204.
Object history
Printed in John Flamsteed (to Cassini), 'New observations of the farthest elongations of the Medicean stars from the centre of Jupiter, together with some other uncommon ones concerning the diameters of the planets and their distances from fixed stars, as also of the parallax of Mars, etc', Phil. Trans. vol. 8, no. 96 (July 1673), pp. 6094-7000 (pp. 6097-98).
Related fellows
Jean Dominique Cassini (1625 - 1712, Italian) , Astronomer, Astronomer
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