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 64
l, wherehe made very rapid progress, and already showedthe bent of his mind. He learnt to make dials ; hemade himself so thoroughly acquainted with theheavens that it is said, If a star were displaced inthe globe he would presently find it out, and heobserved the changes in the direction of the… … EDMUND HALLEY. {From an old print.) HALLEY AND HIS SUCCESSORS 63 i6j$, he had observed an eclipse of the moon fromhis fathers house in Winchester Street. A much wider scheme of work than such merelycasual observations now entered his mind, possiblysuggested to him by Flamsteeds appointment to…
Royal Greenwich Observatory · Astronomy
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