Paris Observatory Completed
1671
The Academie Royale des Sciences moved into the newly completed Observatoire de Paris, designed by Claude Perrault and directed by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini. From its rooftop, Cassini would discover four moons of Saturn and measure the distance to Mars. France had built the finest astronomical facility in Europe, a palace for stargazers.
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Also in 1671 (4 other events on record)
- Shivaji Sacks Surat Again · South Asia · War
- Leibniz Designs a Calculating Machine · Europe · Technology
- Henry Morgan Sacks Panama · North America · War
- Cossack Stenka Razin Executed · Europe · War
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.