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In this entertaining and highly illustrated history of the Royal Observatory, first published in 1900, astronomer Edward Walter Maunder (18511928) explores the departments of the institution and the lives of its Astronomers Royal, illuminating the fabulous and often overlooked advances made there since its founding in the seventeenth century.

Table of Contents
1. Introduction; 2. Flamsteed; 3. Halley and his successors; 4. Airy; 5. The observatory buildings; 6. The time department; 7. The transit and circle departments; 8. The altazimuth department; 9. The magnetic and meteorological departments; 10. The heliographic department; 11. The spectroscopic department; 12. The astrographic department; 13. The double-star department; Index.

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    Publisher: Cambridge University Press
    Publication Date: 8/22/2013 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9781108065061, 978-1108065061
    ISBN10: 1108065066
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    Book Synopsis
    In this entertaining and highly illustrated history of the Royal Observatory, first published in 1900, astronomer Edward Walter Maunder (18511928) explores the departments of the institution and the lives of its Astronomers Royal, illuminating the fabulous and often overlooked advances made there since its founding in the seventeenth century.

    Table of Contents
    1. Introduction; 2. Flamsteed; 3. Halley and his successors; 4. Airy; 5. The observatory buildings; 6. The time department; 7. The transit and circle departments; 8. The altazimuth department; 9. The magnetic and meteorological departments; 10. The heliographic department; 11. The spectroscopic department; 12. The astrographic department; 13. The double-star department; Index.

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