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Title

Authors

• Cassini, Giovanni Domenico, 1625-1712

Other related names

• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner
• Stanitz, John D, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5028779
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5028779

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Summary

Observations of the vernal equinox made at the Paris Observatory (l'observatoire royal) on 21 March 1703 and notes on earlier equinoxes and the implications for year length and calendar reform, written on a gathering that has been removed from a larger manuscript (18th-century (?) foliation 81-90, 19th-century pencil pagination 301-319). A note in a contemporary Italian hand attributes the manuscript to Cassini and records that it was sent from Paris in May (f. 1r).

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Provenance

• Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (Kraus).
   
• Sold by Robinson Brothers (London), 1945.
   
• Appeared in an H. P. Kraus (New York) catalog.
   
• Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 13.
   
• Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy--France--Observations
• Vernal equinox

Genres

• Fragments
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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