Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy, founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1899)
Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911. Celestial motions · Boston, Little, Brown and company · leaf 439
vatoryin conjunction with it.Fourteen years wereconsumed in preliminaries, and in building the obser-vatory, completing and installing the instruments.The subsequent history of the Lick Observatory ismore widely known than that of any other scientificinstitution in the world. Could Mr Lick have… … JAMES LICK (1796-1876) Telescopes and Houses for Them 381 Uriah A. Boyden, who acquired a snug fortune ofabout 3230,000 from his inventions and improvementsin turbine water-wheels, bequeathed it all to threetrustees to establish and maintain, in conjunctionwith others, an astronomical observatory…
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