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This chapter begins with the account by Wilhelm Olbers of his discovery of Pallas, as related to Baron Franz von Zach, and Zach’s first observations of the new object. Subsequent observations up to 1834 are covered.
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Zach mentions several people who had written about comets: Fortunatus Licetus or Fortunio Liceti (1577–1657; 1623), Italian physician and colleague of Galileo at the University of Padua; Johannes Hevelius (1611–1687; 1668), mayor of Danzig and builder of an observatory in 1641; Domenico Cassini (1625–1712). first director of the Paris Observatory (see Rost 1718: 506); and Nicholaas (Nicolas) Struyck (1687–1769; 1740), who was a Dutch astronomer. The identification and publication dates of their comet work follows. See the references at the end of this chapter for the titles of their works.
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It was noted by Humboldt (1845: 37) that “The comet of 1729 is the only one of those hitherto computed which has its perihelion between the orbits of Pallas and Jupiter.”
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Cunningham, C.J. (2017). Scientific Papers. In: Studies of Pallas in the Early Nineteenth Century. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32848-5_11
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