Piazzi’s Monographs

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Provides extensive translated excerpts from the two monographs Piazzi wrote on the discovery of Ceres, the first asteroid.

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Goethe, J. (1816). Die Italiänische Reise. Diary entry for 3 April 1787.
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Clifford Cunningham
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Cunningham, C. (2016). Piazzi’s Monographs. In: Discovery of the First Asteroid, Ceres. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21777-2_7