Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope 1820-1831: The Founding of a Colonial Observatory Incorporating a Biography of Fearon Fallows
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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 interest in the history of the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope which, after the diversion of producing several books on later phases of the Observatory,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0792335279
ISBN13:9780792335276
Release Date:June 1995
Publisher:Springer
Length:240 Pages
Weight:1.18 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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