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Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope 1820–1831 The Founding of a Colonial Observatory Incorporating a biography of Fearon Fallows

This book, which has been in the making for some eighteen years, would never have begun were it not for Dr. David Dewhirst in 1976 kindly having shown the author a packet of papers in the archives of the Cambridge Obser­ vatories. These letters and miscellaneous papers of Fearon Fallows sparked an i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Warner, Brian
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1995, 1995
Edition:1st ed. 1995
Subjects:
Astronomy, Observations And Techniques
History, General
History
Observations, Astronomical
Astronomy—observations
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Synopsis of the Construction
  • Security Measures
  • Quality Control
  • The Chases
  • Instrument Piers
  • Outhouses
  • The Domes
  • Fittings and Furniture
  • 4: Instrumentation
  • The Zenith Sector
  • The Mural Circle
  • The Transit Instrument
  • Transportation to the Observatory
  • Captain Ronald
  • The Herschel 14-foot Reflector
  • Clocks and Chronometers
  • 5: Life at the Observatory
  • Residential Occupation
  • Land Acquisition: 1827–28
  • Klerck’s Estate
  • Completion of the Instrument Piers
  • The Meridian Marks
  • The Observatory Well
  • Beautifying the Site
  • Manuel Johnson and the St. Helena Observatory
  • Cambridge University Observatory
  • Paramatta Observatory
  • The South African Museum
  • Miscellaneous Associations
  • Ecclesiastical Involvements
  • The Observatory and Slavery
  • The Cape Wine Trade Committee
  • 6: No Bed of Roses
  • Response to Criticism
  • Threat of Abortion
  • Swinging the Pendulum
  • Testing the Transit and Mural Instruments
  • 1: From Cockermouth to the Cape Via Cambridge
  • The Origins of the Royal Observatory, CGH
  • The Young Fallows
  • Cambridge Undergraduate
  • Religious Orders
  • A Cambridge Career
  • Mathematical Reform
  • Astronomy at Cambridge
  • The Royal Astronomical Society and the Royal Society
  • Preparations for Departure
  • 2: Cape Residence
  • Voyage to the Cape
  • Initial Impressions
  • The Temporary Observatories
  • The Catalogue of Southern Stars
  • A Proposed Time Service
  • The Search for a Suitable Site
  • Lacaille’s Observatory
  • Fallows’s Personal Life
  • Financial Arrangements
  • George Thompson
  • Captain Owen and the Longitude of the Cape
  • Minor Publications
  • Observations of Eclipses
  • The Assistants
  • Diversions
  • 3: Birth of the Observatory
  • Land Acquisition: 1823–24
  • The Plan Delayed
  • The Architect
  • The Architecture
  • The First Contract
  • John Cannon
  • The Meridian Line
  • John Skirrow
  • The Foundations
  • Winter 1825
  • The Second Contract
  • The Departure of Captain Ronald
  • First (and only) Meridian Results
  • The Mural Circle: Completion of the Saga
  • Final Days
  • The Observatory in Limbo
  • Mrs. Fallows
  • Final Publication
  • References

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