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Unpublished paper, 'Descrizione dell' osservatorio del Collegio Romano' [Description of the observatory of the Roman College] by P A [Angelo] Secchi

Reference number: AP/38/20

Date: 1856

Description

Secchi shares a physical description of the new observatory of the Roman College, including the meridian and equatorial rooms and the equipment they contain.

Includes two figures relating to the construction of the observatory.

Subject: Civil engineering

Communicated by George Rennie.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 8 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Description of the observatory of the Collegio Romano at Rome'.

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AP/38/20
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1856
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12 pages
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Angelo Secchi

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Angelo Secchi, Unpublished paper, 'Descrizione dell' osservatorio del Collegio Romano' [Description of the observatory of the Roman College] by P A [Angelo] Secchi, 1856, AP/38/20, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_38_20/unpublished-paper-descrizione-dell-osservatorio-del-collegio-romano-description-of-the-observatory-of-the-roman-college-by-p-a-angelo-secchi, accessed on 21 June 2025

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