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Tuesday, 3 March 2009
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Joining the 2009 International Year of Astronomy's Cosmic Diary project, this blog is based on the the Journals of the Astronomer Royal and Chief Assistant of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich for 1894.
Royal Observatory Greenwich - the 1894 Cosmic Diary
This blog is formed from the entries for 1894 in the Astronomer Royal's Journal and Chief Assistant's Journal from the archives of the Royal Observatory Greenwich. The writers are:
William Henry Mahony Christie (Astronomer Royal)
Herbert Hall Turner (Chief Assistant 1881-1894)
Frank Watson Dyson (Chief Assistant 1894-1905)
The manuscripts are now held in the Manuscripts Department of the University of Cambridge Library (ref: RGO 7/29-30) and are reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library.
William Henry Mahony Christie (Astronomer Royal)
Herbert Hall Turner (Chief Assistant 1881-1894)
Frank Watson Dyson (Chief Assistant 1894-1905)
The manuscripts are now held in the Manuscripts Department of the University of Cambridge Library (ref: RGO 7/29-30) and are reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library.
Editor
- Rebekah Higgitt
- I am a historian of science and a curator at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, part of the National Maritime Museum.
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- Building works (7)
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- Crisp (4)
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- Dyson (1)
- eclipse (1)
- Electricity (3)
- Gas (3)
- Great Equatorial (2)
- Greenwich Park (2)
- Lassell telescope (1)
- Liverpool Observatory (1)
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- Turner (10)
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