Greenwich Observatory ... the Story of Britain's Oldest Scientific Institution, the Royal Observatory at Greenwich and Herstmonceux, 1675-1975, Volume 3Taylor & Francis, 1975 |
Contents
THE BUILDINGS AT GREENWICH OVER I | 1 |
THE MURAL INSTRUMENTS | 17 |
THE PRINCIPAL TRANSIT INSTRUMENTS | 31 |
Copyright | |
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10-foot transit Abinger achromatic Altazimuth Altazimuth Pavilion aperture Astrographic Astron Astronomer Royal Bradley Bradley's brass building Christie enclosure chronograph Chronometer Room Comet Contemporary Accounts counterpoise Dallmeyer demolished Dent Description Figs diameter dismounted east Edward Troughton Equatorial Sector erected eye-end eyepiece feet fitted Flamsteed House Flamsteed's focal length G. B. Airy Graham Grubb Halley Halley's Herstmonceux Historical Summary horizontal inches Jonas Moore limb London Magnet House Maskelyne meridian Merz micrometer mounted movable moved mural arc mural circle Mural Quadrant National Maritime Museum object-glass Old Royal Observatory pendulum Peter Dollond photographic photoheliograph pier plate plumb-line polar axis Pond Quadrant Room reflector refractor roof Royal Greenwich Observatory screw sextant Shortt Shuckburgh Sidereal Standard Sir Howard Grubb Sir Jonas Sisson Solar star Thompson Towneley Transit Circle Transit Circle Room transit clock transit instrument Transit of Venus Transit Room Troughton & Simms vertical wire Zenith Sector Zenith Telescope