Complete Works, Volume Four (1658) - Page 6

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1649. An eclipse of the Moon, the shape of Saturn Gassendi was studying the "handles" or "ears" of Saturn, which were later identified as rings by Christiaan Huygens, the altitude of the Pole at Toulon and also the noon altitude of the Sun, etc. 464

1650. An experiment on the Vacuum using Mercury original: "Experimentum Inanis ope Hydrargiri," referring to the barometric experiments following Torricelli, the shape of Saturn, the solstitial altitude at Toulon, etc. 467

1651. Again, the solstitial altitude at Toulon, the shape of Saturn, etc. 468

1652. An eclipse of the Moon and the Sun, the shape of Saturn, another eclipse of the Moon, etc. ibid. ibid. indicates the same page number as the previous entry

1653. The shape of Saturn, etc. 474

1654. An eclipse of the Sun and the Moon, etc. ibid.

1655. An eclipse of the Sun, the spherical shape of Saturn, etc., and the conjunction of the Moon with it, etc. 479

APPENDIX

Observations made in various places regarding the Comet that appeared at the end of December 1652 and the beginning of January 1653. page 481

MERCURY SEEN IN THE SUN AND

Venus unseen at Paris in the Year 1631

Two Letters to Schickard Wilhelm Schickard, a German astronomer and friend of Gassendi, the first of which concerns Mercury seen in the Sun This refers to the first observed transit of Mercury across the face of the Sun, which Gassendi witnessed on November 7, 1631. page 499

And the latter concerning Venus not seen. 505

NINE STARS AROUND JUPITER

seen at Cologne at the end of the Year 1642 and the beginning of 1643

The observation and letter of the Reverend Anton Maria de Rheïta, a Capuchin monk. page 512

The author’s judgment contained in a specific letter to Naudé Gabriel Naudé, a scholar and librarian. 513

Observation of the oscillation of pendulums original: "Reciprocationis perpendiculorũ" observed daily by the noble Peiresc Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, a patron of science, like the tides of the sea. 520

THE SOLSTITIAL ALTITUDE AT MARSEILLE,

or the proportion of a Gnomon to the solstitial shadow

observed in the Year 1636

First Letter. page 523
Second Letter. 524
Third Letter. 535