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Paper, 'Observata immersiones, et emersiones satellitum [Jupiter] in et ex hujus umbra Pekini [Beijing] in sinis a November 1727 usque ad November 1728' [Observing the immersions and emergences of Jupiter's satellites in and out of shadow in Peking between November 1727 to November 1728] by J B [Joanne Baptista] Carbone

Reference number: CLP/8ii/26

Date: 21 May 1730

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Carbone presents a list of observations of three of Jupiter's satellites from Beijing and the times at which the observations were made. He goes on to share observations of the lunar eclipse of 29 August 1728 made at the public observatory of Beijing.

Subject: Astronomy

Read to the Royal Society on 21 May 1730

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Observationes cœlestes multifariœ inter menses Novemb. 1727, & Novemb. 1728, pekini in sinis, habitœ & ad Rev. P. Joannem Baptistam Carbone, Soc. Jes. transmissœ. Ex eadem epistola descriptœ'

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CLP/8ii/26
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21 May 1730
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4 pages
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Joanne Baptista Carbone

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Joanne Baptista Carbone, Paper, 'Observata immersiones, et emersiones satellitum [Jupiter] in et ex hujus umbra Pekini [Beijing] in sinis a November 1727 usque ad November 1728' [Observing the immersions and emergences of Jupiter's satellites in and out of shadow in Peking between November 1727 to November 1728] by J B [Joanne Baptista] Carbone, 21 May 1730, CLP/8ii/26, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_8ii_26/paper-observata-immersiones-et-emersiones-satellitum-jupiter-in-et-ex-hujus-umbra-pekini-beijing-in-sinis-a-november-1727-usque-ad-november-1728-observing-the-immersions-and-emergences-of-jupiters-satellites-in-and-out-of-shadow-in-peking-between-november-1727-to-november-1728-by-j-b-joanne-baptista-carbone, accessed on 08 December 2024

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