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Read Ebook: The Royal Observatory Greenwich: A Glance at Its History and Work by Maunder E Walter Edward Walter
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INDEX 317
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THE NEW BUILDING 7
GENERAL VIEW OF THE OBSERVATORY BUILDINGS FROM THE NEW DOME 12
FLAMSTEED'S SEXTANT 36
THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY IN FLAMSTEED'S TIME 44
THE 'CAMERA STELLATA' IN FLAMSTEED'S TIME 52
EDMUND HALLEY 61
HALLEY'S QUADRANT 69
JAMES BRADLEY 72
GRAHAM'S ZENITH SECTOR 77
NATHANIEL BLISS 83
NEVIL MASKELYNE 87
HADLEY'S QUADRANT 91
JOHN POND 96
GEORGE BIDDELL AIRY, ASTRONOMER ROYAL 103
THE ASTRONOMER ROYAL'S ROOM 110
THE SOUTH-EAST TOWER 115
W. H. M. CHRISTIE, ASTRONOMER ROYAL 121
THE ASTRONOMER ROYAL'S HOUSE 127
THE COURTYARD 130
PLAN OF OBSERVATORY AT PRESENT TIME 134
THE GREAT CLOCK AND PORTER'S LODGE 147
THE CHRONOGRAPH 158
THE TIME-DESK 164
HARRISON'S CHRONOMETER 165
THE CHRONOMETER ROOM 167
THE CHRONOMETER OVEN 171
THE TRANSIT PAVILION 174
'LOST IN THE BIRKENHEAD' 179
THE TRANSIT CIRCLE 189
THE MURAL CIRCLE 195
AIRY'S ALTAZIMUTH 208
NEW ALTAZIMUTH BUILDING 211
THE NEW ALTAZIMUTH 213
THE NEW OBSERVATORY AS SEEN FROM FLAMSTEED'S OBSERVATORY 219
THE SELF-REGISTERING THERMOMETERS 235
THE ANEMOMETER ROOM, NORTH-WEST TURRET 240
THE ANEMOMETER TRACE 243
MAGNETIC PAVILION--EXTERIOR 246
MAGNETIC PAVILION--INTERIOR 248
THE DALLMEYER PHOTO-HELIOGRAPH 254
PHOTOGRAPH OF A GROUP OF SUN-SPOTS 259
THE GREAT NEBULA IN ORION 269
THE HALF-PRISM SPECTROSCOPE ON THE SOUTH-EAST EQUATORIAL 273
THE WORKSHOP 276
THE 30-INCH REFLECTOR WITH THE NEW SPECTROSCOPE ATTACHED 278
'CHART PLATE' OF THE PLEIADES 286
THE CONTROL PENDULUM AND THE BASE OF THE THOMPSON TELESCOPE 289
THE ASTROGRAPHIC TELESCOPE 291
THE DRIVING CLOCK OF THE ASTROGRAPHIC TELESCOPE 294
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