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 289
Astronomer Royal, at the first founda-tion of the Observatory, and which was so diligentlycarried out by him, the first Greenwich catalogue,containing about 3000 stars, being due to his labours.His immediate successors did much less in thisfield, though Bradleys observations were published,long… … CHART PLATE OF THE PLEIADES. {From a photograph taken at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, with anexposure of forty minutes.) THE ASTROGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT 287 and his precedent is sedulously followed to-day. Buteach of these was confined to about 3000 stars. Thenecessity has long been felt for a…
Royal Greenwich Observatory · Astronomy
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