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Hardcover Kew Observatory and the Evolution of Victorian Science, 1840-1910 Book

ISBN: 0822945266

ISBN13: 9780822945260

Kew Observatory and the Evolution of Victorian Science, 1840-1910

(Part of the Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Series)

Kew Observatory was originally built in 1769 for King George III, a keen amateur astronomer, so that he could observe the transit of Venus. By the mid-nineteenth century, it was a world-leading center for four major sciences: geomagnetism, meteorology, solar physics, and standardization. Long before government cutbacks forced its closure in 1980, the observatory was run by both major bodies responsible for the management of science in Britain: first...

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