The Royal observatory, Greenwich. A glance at its history and work (1900)
Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter), 1851-1928 · London, The Religious tract society · leaf 222
d which was thenmuch the largest, best mounted and housed equatorialin the entire country. The Northumberland hadbeen begun from Airys designs and under his ownsuperintendence, when he was Professor of Astronomyat Cambridge. Naturally, then, knowing how muchsuperior the Cambridge telescope was to… … THE ALTAZIMUTH DEPARTMENT 221 man to understand how it was that Adams not onlyleft unnoticed and unanswered for three-quarters ofa year, an inquiry of Airys with respect to hiscalculations, but also never took the trouble to visitChallis, whom he knew well, and who was so near athand, to stir him…
Royal Greenwich Observatory · Astronomy
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