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New Jesuit Testimonies from the Far East on the Comet of March 1668: The Diary of Visitor Luis Da Gama (macau) and a Letter of Ferdinand Verbiest (peking) (2018)

Golvers, Noël (Author)

Almagest
Volume: 9
Issue: 2
Pages: 88-99
Publication date: 2018
Language: English

DOI: 10.1484/J.ALMAGEST.5.116771

URI: https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.ALMAGEST.5.116771

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Observation Astronomy Comets; meteors; meteorites 17th century China da Gama, Luis Verbiest, Ferdinand Jesuits (Society of Jesus)

A fragment of a handwritten private diary from a Jesuit in Macau (1668) contains, among others, a first person description of the "sungrazing" comet of March 1668. Although not made by a expert observer, it confirms that the simultaneous description, given by Ferdinand Verbiest, SJ, living in Peking, 2000 km. more to the North, was indeed of this comet (see Almagest 5.1); both testimonies should therefore be added as authentic complementary evidence for the study of this historical comet, which was described incompletely, on far distant places on the globe, mostly by Jesuit observers within an intercontinental network of observations.

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