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The Collegio Romano Observatory, restructured by Angelo Secchi in the second half of the nineteenth century, represents a place of extraordinary importance in the history of science, because it saw the birth of astrophysics. We provide an introduction to Fr. Angelo Secchi and review his astronomical work in the context of this observatory.
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The authors thank Antonio Coretti of the Vatican Specola for support in the preparation of the figures. Translated from the original Italian by Guy Consolmagno S. J.
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Altamore, A., Galaverni, M., Corbally, C.J. (2021). An Introduction to Angelo Secchi and his Collegio Romano Observatory. In: Chinnici, I., Consolmagno, G. (eds) Angelo Secchi and Nineteenth Century Science. Historical & Cultural Astronomy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58384-2_1
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