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Contemporary account from 1824

 

Date: 1824
Author: Anonymous
Title: The Royal Observatory, Greenwich Park
About: This brief historical account published by R. Ackermann in his Repository of arts, literature, fashions &c., The Third Series, Volume IV, No.XXII, (London), 1 Oct 1824, pp.186–188, is included here not for the text, but for its contemporary illustration which is the earliest known view of Flamsteed House from the north to include the lantern above Pond's 25-foot Great Zenith Tube.
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