Letter from John Flamsteed to Giovanni Domenico Cassini, 8 Jan. 1678/9

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  • Reference
    • GB 112 RAS/MSS/Add./3
  • Dates of Creation
    • 8th Jan 1678/9
  • Language of Material
    • Latin
  • Physical Description
    • 1 letter

Scope and Content

John Flamsteed acknowledges the receipt of Giovanni Domenico Cassini's observations of the lunar eclipse of 29 October 1678, and sends his own observations of the eclipse made at Greenwich.

Bibliography

Letter 349 in The Correspondence of John Flamsteed, The First Astronomer Royal: Volume 1: 1666–1682 (Institute of Physics Publishing, 1995), p. 665.