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 300
s, and of the mass of Jupiter.The utilitarian motive for the work having fallenthrough, it has been carried on as a matter of purescience. THE ASTROGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT 297 And the work has not stopped with the satellitesof Jupiter ; eight satellites were in due time discoveredto Saturn, four to… … THE THOMPSON TELESCOPE IN THE NEW DOME. Iii just the same way, when the discoveryof Neptune was followed by that of a solitarycompanion to it, this also had to be followed. Thedifficulties in the way of observing the fainter of allthese satellites were considerable, and the work has 298 THE ROYAL…
Royal Greenwich Observatory · Astronomy
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