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Giovanni Domenico Cassini accepted the invitation of the marquis Malvasia to move in his castle. At the age of 24 years old, he thus left permanently his native land. As reported in his memoirs, he arrived at the castle of Panzano when: “Senator Malvasia was in Villa Pausano, close to Modena, where he was building an Observatory which had to be equipped with several instruments and with a lot of astronomy books”.
Le sénateur Malvasia était à la Villa di Pausano proche Modène, où il faisant construire un Observatoire qui devait être garni de plusieurs instrumens et orné d’une grande quantité de livres d’astronomie…
Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire des sciences
et à celle de l’Observatoire de Paris, Parigi, Bleuet, 1810
by Jean-Dominique Cassini
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Bernardi, G. (2017). Castle of Panzano. In: Giovanni Domenico Cassini. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63468-5_4
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