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 441
URIAH ATHERTOX BOYDEN (1804-1879) 1886, and the search for a suitable peak began. Inour own country, lofty elevations in Colorado andCalifornia wrere investigated, with unsatisfactory con-clusions, after which the field of search was trans-ferred to South America. The Chilean desert of Ata-cama… … wowij1-1ou Pi Ko o <> Telescopes and Houses for Them 383 established at Chosica in Peru, followed by the per-manent observatory now maintained at Arequipa inthe same country. Two photographic telescopes areconstantly in use at this remote station, and a pow-erful refractor could…
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