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Category: 17th Century

Scientific Spectacle in Baroque Rome: Athanasius Kircher and the Roman College Museum

2 Nov 2017

Jesuits: Savants

2 Nov 2017  |  Education

The earliest telescope preserved in Japan

30 Oct 2017

Exploring the first scientific observations of lunar eclipses made in Siam

24 Oct 2017

Accuracy of Solar Eclipse Observations Made by Jesuit Astronomers in China

23 Oct 2017

French astronomers in India during the 17th – 19th centuries

23 Oct 2017

Jesuit Astronomers in Beijing 1601-1805

19 Oct 2017

Maximilian Hell and the Northernmost Transit of Venus Expedition of 1769

19 Oct 2017

Early Observations of Sunspots: Scheiner and Galileo

18 Oct 2017

The Parallel Worlds of Christoph Scheiner and Galileo Galilei

14 Oct 2017

On Sunspots – Galileo Galilei and Christoph Scheiner

2 Sep 2017

Johannes Kepler and the New Astronomy

28 Aug 2017

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