The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 404, December 12, 1829
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 404, December 12, 1829

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 404, December 12, 1829

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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 404, December 12, 1829

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 404, December 12, 1829

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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 404, December 12, 1829

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 404, December 12, 1829

$105.69 $52.82
Author: Various
Format: eBook
Language: English
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 404, December 12, 1829

In the present almanack season, as it is technically called, the above illustration of our pages may not be inappropriate or ill-timed, inasmuch as it represents the spot whence all English astronomers make their calculations. The Observatory was built by Charles II., in the year 1675probably, observes a recent writer, "with no better motive than to imitate Louis XIV.," who had just completed the erection and endowment of an observatory at Paris. The English Observatory was fortunately placed under the direction of the celebrated Flamstead, whose name the hill, or site of the building, still retains. He was appointed astronomer-royal in 1676; but Charles (as in the case of the curious dial at Whitehall, described by us a few weeks since1), neglected to complete what he had so well begun: and Flamstead entered upon the duties of his appointment with instruments principally provided at his own expense, and that of a zealous patron of science, James Moore. It should seem that this species of parsimony is hereditary in the English Government, for, upon the authority of the Quarterly Review, we learn that "within the wide range of the British Islands there is only one observatory (Greenwich), and scarcely one supported by the Government. We say scarcely one, because we believe that some of the instruments in the observatory at Greenwich were purchased out of the private funds of the Royal Society of London."2 ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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