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Sersale, Gerolamo

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Sirsalis

Born (Italy), 1584

Died 1654

The Neapolitan Jesuit Gerolamo Sersale published a telescopic view of the Full Moon as it appeared in July 1650. Long thought lost, the original is now housed at the Naval Observatory of San Fernando, in Cadiz, Spain. A crater on the Moon is named Sirsalis.

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  • Montgomery, S. L. (1996). The Scientific Voice. New York: Guilford Press.

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Hockey, T. (2014). Sersale, Gerolamo. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_9125

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