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Letter, from Jean Dominique Cassini to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Paris

Reference number: EL/C1/55

Date: 22 June 1672

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Cassini thanks the Royal Society for electing him to the Fellowship and promises a paper on the ephemerides of Jupiter's satellites
Read to the Royal Society on 26 June 1672

Reference number
EL/C1/55
Earliest possible date
22 June 1672
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Jean Dominique Cassini

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Jean Dominique Cassini, Letter, from Jean Dominique Cassini to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Paris, 22 June 1672, EL/C1/55, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_c1_55/letter-from-jean-dominique-cassini-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-paris, accessed on 08 December 2023

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