Mercurii ac Solis Congressus in Astronomica Specula Bononiensis Scientiarum Instituti Observatus die IX. Novembris MDCCXXIII

Mercurii ac Solis Congressus in Astronomica Specula Bononiensis Scientiarum Instituti Observatus die IX. Novembris MDCCXXIII
by Eustachio Manfredi
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Mercurii ac solis congressus in astronomica specula Bononiensis Scientiarum Instituti observatus die IX. Novembris MDCCXXIII...

Mercurii ac solis congressus in astronomica specula Bononiensis Scientiarum Instituti observatus die IX. Novembris MDCCXXIII

By Eustachio Manfredi. Bononiae: Typis Constantini Pisarri ..., 1724.

A very rare work of observational astronomy on the transit of Mercury witnessed by Manfredi From the Bologna observatory on November 9, 1723. First observed in 1677, only five transits had been previously recorded, and the planet's highly eccentric orbit had yet to be charted.

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Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology