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Contemporary account from 1889

 

Date: 1889
Author: William Cudworth
Title: Greenwich Observatory
About At the end of his book: Life and Correspondence of Abraham Sharp, The Yorkshire Mathematician and Astronomer, and Assistant of Flamsteed; with Memorials of His Family, and Associated Families. London: S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, Ltd.; [etc., etc.,], 1889, William Cudworth rather oddly decided to included a description of the Observatory as it was at the time of writing (pp.318–328).
Images: Two, including the only known image (copied from the 30 January 1888 edition of the Pall Mall Gazette), of the Lassell Telescope in its dome at Greenwich.



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