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The Royal Observatory, Greenwich: A Glance at Its History and Work

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By E. Walter Maunder
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A compact illustrated history and technical survey of the Greenwich observatory, tracing its development under successive directors and detailing buildings, major telescopes, timekeeping devices, and departmental activities. It profiles key astronomers, explains observational methods and instrument design, and examines practical programs in time distribution, positional astronomy, solar photography, spectroscopy, astrography, meteorology, and geomagnetism. Photographs, engravings, and instrument diagrams accompany chapter-length treatments that emphasize daily routines, workshops, and administrative arrangements that sustained precise measurement and institutional work rather than narratives of dramatic discoveries.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Abraham Sharp had been with Flamsteed earlier than this—in 1684 and 1685.

[2] Sir Isaac Newton.

[3] The second circle was intended for the Cape Observatory, but Pond obtained leave to retain it. In 1851 it was transferred to the Observatory of Queen's College, Belfast.

[4] Mr. Thomas Lindsay, Transactions of the Astronomical and Physical Society of Toronto, 1899, p. 17.

[5] From Sir John Herschel's address to the British Association, September 10, 1846, thirteen days before Galle's first observation of the planet.

 

 

Transcriber's note:

Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have been retained as printed.

The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs, thus the page number of the illustration might not match the page number in the List of Illustrations.

Mismatched quotation marks were not corrected if it was not clear where the missing quotation mark should be placed.

Missing page numbers are page numbers that were not shown in the original text.