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 276
a general indication of the direction in whichthe principal stars were moving, and to confirm in ageneral way the inference which various astronomershad found, from discussing the proper motions ofstars, that the sun and the solar system were movingtowards that part of the heavens where the… … THE SPECTROSCOPIC DEPARTMENT 275 by Sir Howard Grubb, upon the same mounting.The new telescope being much larger than the onefor which mounting and observing room wereoriginally built, it was not possible to put thespectroscope in the usual position, in the samestraight line as the great telescope.…
Royal Greenwich Observatory · Astronomy
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