Panzano Observatory

{{short description|17th-century Italian space observatory}}

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The Panzano Observatory was an observatory in the village of {{ill|Panzano, Castelfranco Emilia|lt=Panzano|it|Panzano (Castelfranco Emilia)}} about {{convert|3|km|mi|abbr=off}} to the NNW of the centre of the comune of Castelfranco Emilia, near Bologna, Italy, where Giovanni Cassini worked. It was built in the early 1640s by Cornelio Malvasia.{{Cite book |last1=Teerikorpi |first1=Pekka |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uGGtDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Panzano+Observatory%22&pg=PA104 |title=The Evolving Universe and the Origin of Life: The Search for Our Cosmic Roots |last2=Valtonen |first2=Mauri |last3=Lehto |first3=Kirsi |last4=Lehto |first4=Harry |last5=Byrd |first5=Gene |last6=Chernin |first6=Arthur |date=2019-09-04 |publisher=Springer Nature |isbn=978-3-030-17921-2 |pages=104 |language=en}}