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Piazzi, Giuseppe, 1746 - 1826 (astronomer)

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Observations at Palermo, 1801

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 4/221
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A fair copy of results of the observations of the 'new star' (Ceres) discovered at Palermo by Guiseppe Piazzi, 1 January 1801, translated from the original Italian by Antonio Parachinetti. The volume includes a table on the 'star's' position.

Dates: 1801
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Observations at Palermo, 1801

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 4/222
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A rough copy of the observations of Ceres, discovered at Palermo by Guiseppe Piazzi, 1 January 1801, translated from the original Italian by Antonio Parachinetti.

Dates: 1801
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Ramsden's circle at Palermo, 1805

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 4/181
Scope and Contents Description by Giuseppe Piazzi of the circle made by Jesse Ramsden for the Observatory at Palermo, translated from the Italian by Margaret Maskelyne from Piazzi's, 'Della Specola Astronomica de' Regi Studi di Palermo', Libro II, capo Primo, p. 15 et seq.1. General idea of the instrument.2. Vertical axis.3. The azimuth circle.4. Supports of the vertical axis.5. The iron circles.6. The circle of mahogany. 7. The railing.8....
Dates: 1805
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Obliquity of the Ecliptic, 1807

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 4/180
Scope and Contents 'Of the Obliquity of the Ecliptic', a memoir by Guiseppe Piazzi, translated by Margaret Maskelyne in 1807 from Piazzi's 'Dell' Obliquita dell' eclittica'.1. Zenith distance of the Sun by the satellites observed at Palermo, 1794-1803.2. Obliquity of the ecliptic reduced from arithmetical observations, 1791-1803.3. Obliquity of the ecliptic reduced from the Greenwich observations by Maskelyne, 1790-1799.4. Difference of the obliquity of the summer and winter...
Dates: 1807
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

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