Panzano Observatory

17th-century Italian space observatory

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Observatory

Location of Panzano Observatory

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The Panzano Observatory was an observatory in the village of Panzano [it] about 3 kilometres (1.9 miles) to the NNW of the centre of the comune of Castelfranco Emilia, near Bologna, Italy, where Giovanni Cassini worked. It was built in the early 1640s by Cornelio Malvasia.^[1]

References

^ Teerikorpi, Pekka; Valtonen, Mauri; Lehto, Kirsi; Lehto, Harry; Byrd, Gene; Chernin, Arthur (2019-09-04). The Evolving Universe and the Origin of Life: The Search for Our Cosmic Roots. Springer Nature. p. 104. ISBN 978-3-030-17921-2.

External links

Giovanni Domenico CASSINI, De cometa Anni 1652 & 1653, Mutinae 1653 Archived 2018-05-01 at the Wayback Machine (Italian)
Visita guidata al Castello Malvasia di Panzano di Castelfranco Emilia (MO) Archived 2012-04-02 at the Wayback Machine (Italian)

Astronomical observatories in Italy