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ing made by Lockyer in England on the same date at ‘8h 00m’ (8.00 p.m.) was equivalent to 8h
9m Paris local time. Hence to convert Rome local time to GMT one must subtract 49 minutes.
In calculating the Central Meridian longitude of the drawings reproduced here we have made
this correction.
Hockey, T. (1999a). Galileo’s planet: Observing Jupiter before photography (p. 85). Institute of
Physics Publishing.
Hockey, T. (1999b). Galileo’s planet, op. cit., p. 104. These colorations in the equatorial zone of
Jupiter are mentioned by Secchi in his book Le Soleil (1870).
Le Conte, D. (2011). Warren De La Rue – Pioneer astronomical photographer. The Antiquarian
Astronomer, (5), 14–35.
Maffeo, S. (2011). G.V.Schiaparelli and Fr. A. Secchi, S.J. Mem. S.A.It., 82, pp. 259–267.
McKim, R. J. (1999). Telescopic martian dust storms: A narrative and catalogue. Memoirs of the
British Astronomical Association, 44, 19–20.
McKim, R. J. (2010). The Great Perihelic opposition of Mars, 2003. Journal of the British
Astronomical Association, 120, 280–295.
McKim, R. J. (2015). Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 125, 203–216.
Phillips, J. (1856–1857). Notes on the drawing of ‘Copernicus,’ presented to the Royal Society by
P.A. Secchi. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 8, 73–75.
Schiaparelli, G. V. (1878). Osservazioni astronomiche e fisiche sull’asse di rotazione e sulla
topografia del pianeta Marte, fatte nelle Reale Specola di Brera in Milano coll-equatoriale
di Merz durante l’opposizione del 1877, Memorie della Societa degl Spetrroscopisti Italiani,
Appendice al vol. VII, Palermo.
Secchi, A. (1851). Nuove apparenze dell’anello di Saturno. Annali di scienze matematiche e fisiche, 2, 39–44.
Secchi, A. (1855). Richerche sopra il pianete Giove, fatte coll’equatoriale de Merz all’osservatorio
del Collegio Romano durante l’anno 1850′, Il Nuovo Cimento, Giornale di Fisca, di Chemica,
et Delle Loro Applicatione, 2, p. 351.
Secchi, A. (1856). Descrizione del Nuovo osservatorio del collegio romano (p. 158). Rome.
Secchi, A. (1858). Atlas photographique lunaire. Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences,
47, 362–364.
Secchi, A. (1859a). Fotografie lunari e degli altri corpi celesti. Memorie dell’Osservatorio del
Collegio Romano Nuova Serie, I, 158–160.
Secchi, A. (1859b). Osservazioni di Marte fatte durante l’opposizione del 1858. Memorie
dell’Osservatorio Del Collegio Romano, Nuova Serie, I(3), 17–24.
Secchi, A. (1859c). Quadro fisico del Sistema Solare. Roma: Tipografia delle Belle Arti.
Secchi, A. (1863a). Osservazioni del pianeta Marte. Memorie dell’Osservatorio Del Collegio
Romano, Nuova Serie, II(10), 76–79.
Secchi, A. (1863b). Osservazioni di Saturno in occasione della disparizione dell’anello negli anni
1861 e 62. Memorie dell’Osservatorio del Collegio Romano, Nuova Serie, II(1860–63), 73–76.
Secchi, A. (1864). Observations of the spectrum of Jupiter. The London, Edinburgh and Dublin
Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, 28, 486.
Secchi, A. (1868 and 1872). Sugli Spettri prismatici di Corpi celesti. 1 br. in-8; Rome (1868); 1
br. n-4; Rome (1872).)
Secchi, A. (1869). Résultats fournis par l’analyse spectrale de la lumière d’Uranus, de l’étoile R
des Gemeaux, et des taches solaires. Comptes rendus de l’Academie des Sciences, 68, 761–765.
Terby, F. (1874). Aréographie ou étude Comparative des observations faites sur l’aspect physique de la planète Mars depuis Fontana (1636) jusqu’a nos jours (1873), Académie royale de
Belgique, Brussels, pp. 19–20. A complete publication history of Secchi’s Mars observations
was given by Terby, who among other things mentions that chromolithographs of two drawings of 1858 June and were reproduced in Astron. Nachr. for 1859 (which we have not seen),
and in Secchi’s own Le Soleil (Paris, 1870, p. 347). To this publication history we can add
the reappearance of the 1858 June 3 and 14 coloured drawings in A Handbook of Descriptive
and Practical Astronomy by George F. Chambers (Volume 1, The Sun, Planets and Comets,
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1889, page 148f). Again the reproduction of the colours was crude
and unsatisfactory.
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ing made by Lockyer in England on the same date at ‘8h 00m’ (8.00 p.m.) was equivalent to 8h
9m Paris local time. Hence to convert Rome local time to GMT one must subtract 49 minutes.
In calculating the Central Meridian longitude of the drawings reproduced here we have made
this correction.
Hockey, T. (1999a). Galileo’s planet: Observing Jupiter before photography (p. 85). Institute of
Physics Publishing.
Hockey, T. (1999b). Galileo’s planet, op. cit., p. 104. These colorations in the equatorial zone of
Jupiter are mentioned by Secchi in his book Le Soleil (1870).
Le Conte, D. (2011). Warren De La Rue – Pioneer astronomical photographer. The Antiquarian
Astronomer, (5), 14–35.
Maffeo, S. (2011). G.V.Schiaparelli and Fr. A. Secchi, S.J. Mem. S.A.It., 82, pp. 259–267.
McKim, R. J. (1999). Telescopic martian dust storms: A narrative and catalogue. Memoirs of the
British Astronomical Association, 44, 19–20.
McKim, R. J. (2010). The Great Perihelic opposition of Mars, 2003. Journal of the British
Astronomical Association, 120, 280–295.
McKim, R. J. (2015). Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 125, 203–216.
Phillips, J. (1856–1857). Notes on the drawing of ‘Copernicus,’ presented to the Royal Society by
P.A. Secchi. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 8, 73–75.
Schiaparelli, G. V. (1878). Osservazioni astronomiche e fisiche sull’asse di rotazione e sulla
topografia del pianeta Marte, fatte nelle Reale Specola di Brera in Milano coll-equatoriale
di Merz durante l’opposizione del 1877, Memorie della Societa degl Spetrroscopisti Italiani,
Appendice al vol. VII, Palermo.
Secchi, A. (1851). Nuove apparenze dell’anello di Saturno. Annali di scienze matematiche e fisiche, 2, 39–44.
Secchi, A. (1855). Richerche sopra il pianete Giove, fatte coll’equatoriale de Merz all’osservatorio
del Collegio Romano durante l’anno 1850′, Il Nuovo Cimento, Giornale di Fisca, di Chemica,
et Delle Loro Applicatione, 2, p. 351.
Secchi, A. (1856). Descrizione del Nuovo osservatorio del collegio romano (p. 158). Rome.
Secchi, A. (1858). Atlas photographique lunaire. Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences,
47, 362–364.
Secchi, A. (1859a). Fotografie lunari e degli altri corpi celesti. Memorie dell’Osservatorio del
Collegio Romano Nuova Serie, I, 158–160.
Secchi, A. (1859b). Osservazioni di Marte fatte durante l’opposizione del 1858. Memorie
dell’Osservatorio Del Collegio Romano, Nuova Serie, I(3), 17–24.
Secchi, A. (1859c). Quadro fisico del Sistema Solare. Roma: Tipografia delle Belle Arti.
Secchi, A. (1863a). Osservazioni del pianeta Marte. Memorie dell’Osservatorio Del Collegio
Romano, Nuova Serie, II(10), 76–79.
Secchi, A. (1863b). Osservazioni di Saturno in occasione della disparizione dell’anello negli anni
1861 e 62. Memorie dell’Osservatorio del Collegio Romano, Nuova Serie, II(1860–63), 73–76.
Secchi, A. (1864). Observations of the spectrum of Jupiter. The London, Edinburgh and Dublin
Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, 28, 486.
Secchi, A. (1868 and 1872). Sugli Spettri prismatici di Corpi celesti. 1 br. in-8; Rome (1868); 1
br. n-4; Rome (1872).)
Secchi, A. (1869). Résultats fournis par l’analyse spectrale de la lumière d’Uranus, de l’étoile R
des Gemeaux, et des taches solaires. Comptes rendus de l’Academie des Sciences, 68, 761–765.
Terby, F. (1874). Aréographie ou étude Comparative des observations faites sur l’aspect physique de la planète Mars depuis Fontana (1636) jusqu’a nos jours (1873), Académie royale de
Belgique, Brussels, pp. 19–20. A complete publication history of Secchi’s Mars observations
was given by Terby, who among other things mentions that chromolithographs of two drawings of 1858 June and were reproduced in Astron. Nachr. for 1859 (which we have not seen),
and in Secchi’s own Le Soleil (Paris, 1870, p. 347). To this publication history we can add
the reappearance of the 1858 June 3 and 14 coloured drawings in A Handbook of Descriptive
and Practical Astronomy by George F. Chambers (Volume 1, The Sun, Planets and Comets,
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1889, page 148f). Again the reproduction of the colours was crude
and unsatisfactory.
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