Letter, regarding astronomical observations made in Peking [Beijing] from J B [Joanne Baptista] Carbone to Jacob de Castro Sarmento
Reference number: CLP/8ii/30
Date: 18 February 1730
Description
The letter comprises observations of the Moon with stars between November 1728 to November 1729 and the immersions and emersions of Jupiter's satellites.
Subject: Astronomy
Read to the Royal Society on 18 February 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'
- Reference number
- CLP/8ii/30
- Earliest possible date
- 18 February 1730
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Joanne Baptista Carbone, Letter, regarding astronomical observations made in Peking [Beijing] from J B [Joanne Baptista] Carbone to Jacob de Castro Sarmento, 18 February 1730, CLP/8ii/30, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_8ii_30/letter-regarding-astronomical-observations-made-in-peking-beijing-from-j-b-joanne-baptista-carbone-to-jacob-de-castro-sarmento, accessed on 16 July 2025
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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
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Dates: 1592 - 1741
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