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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and contain many noble apartments; over them is an observatory, containing a beautiful model of H. M. S. the … wrecked off the French coast on her first voyage. A new observatory, however, was lately built over the central arch …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… Master General of the Ordnance, for building a small observatory on the highest ground in Greenwich Park near …
Calendar of Home Office Papers (George III)
… papers. ( See Nos. 1631 and 1740.) Royal Society and the Observatory at Greenwich. The Royal Society were anxious to … collected by Dr. Bradley, in his official capacity at the Observatory of Greenwich, which were in the possession of his …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… paid, while at Copenhagen, to Tycho Brahe, at the splendid observatory which had been given him by King Frederick. This … he should observe it, for he had divers servants in an observatory furnished with rare, huge and admirable …
Alumni Oxonienses
… and further funds from which the Radcliffe infirmary, and observatory, now library, were built; his son John was a …
Survey of London
… the Cambridge Observatories (Annals of the Solar Physics Observatory, Cambridge, vol. 1), 1949, pp. 1617: H.C.D. 20 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge
… decorations by this architect and by C. R. Cockerell. (19) Observatory, 1822, an example of the revived Greek style …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… fine modelled and painted plaster ceilings. (8) The Royal Observatory, a work of Sir Christopher Wren, built in 16756. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… but after the Restoration reverted to the crown. The Observatory in the park, built in 1769 by Sir William …
The Environs of London
… were laid and arches built for that purpose. The observatory. Not far from the site of the lodge, stands the observatory, built by his present Majesty in the years 1768 … moveable dome which contains an equatorial instrument. The observatory contains also a collection of subjects in natural …