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An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth (1888)

Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863, Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894 · London Longmans, Green · leaf 1347

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er angle than ninetydegrees. Oblong. A rectangle of unequal dimensions, Obskevatory. (Fr.) A building for the reception of instruments and other matters forobserving the heavenly bodies. The observatory at Paris, from the designs of Perrauit,is a noble building, but, we believe, is universally… … Fig. 1428. hbcensions and declinations of the heavenly bodies are determined, and tiius motion,time, and space are converted into measures of each other. On the observations anddeterminations made in such establishments they are therefore, to maritime states, ofvital importance, and ought to be…

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