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 279
d manuscripts, and the terrace roofs of the fourwings will be exceedingly convenient for occasional 276 THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY observations, as, for example, of meteor showers.The central dome, which rises high above the level ofthe terraces, is the only room in the building devotedto telescopic… … THE WORKSHOP. Here the spectroscope is now placed, but not, asit happens, on the Thompson refractor. The equa-torial mounting in this new dome is a modification ofwhat is usually called the German form of mounting—that is to say, there is but one pier to support thetelescope, and the telescope…
Royal Greenwich Observatory · Astronomy
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