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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
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A discovery of two new planets about Saturn made in the Royal Parisian Observatory by Signor Cassini, Fellow of both the Royal Societys, of England and France; English't out of French.

    Bout the end of Otfober 3671. Saturn pafs’d clofc by Four ± fmall Fix't Stars, vifibleonly by a Telefcope, within the finus of the Water of Aquaris, which once took for NewSatellits of Jupiter, calling them 3 but which Hevelius(who called them fiiew’d to be fome o f the common Fix't Stars, that may every day be seen by a telescope any where in the heavens.

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