Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15942

    Saturn's satellite and a new star

    Date
    3 December 1671
    Creator
    Francis Vernon (1632 - 1677, British) , Traveller, Traveller
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p3
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 227mm
    width (page): 171mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > Solar system
          > planet
             > Saturn
    space
       > star
    Description
    Figure representing Cassini's observation of a new star near Saturn's satellite, in a letter from Francis Vernon to Henry Oldenburg, dated 3 December 1671 at Paris.

    Copies of this figure can be found in LBO/5/066 and LBC/5/072.
    Related fellows
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    Francis Vernon (1632 - 1677, British) , Traveller, Traveller
    Cesar Francois Cassini de Thury (1714 - 1784, French) , Astronomer
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > France
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