Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Sep 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008asthe.101..535n&link_type=abstract
The Astronomical Herald (ISSN 0374-2466), Vol. 101, No. 9, p. 535 - 542 (2008)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
History Of Astronomy, Telescopes
Scientific paper
A meridian instrument made by Troughton&Simms in 1875 is exhihited to the history building as the National Astronomical Observatory oldest telescope. The author came to be concerned with old observation instruments of National Astronomical Observatory, and he excavated observation devices left in National Astronomical Observatory and was able to go ahead through reconstruction. And he thought this telescope whether it was the part of the astronomical theodolite not a meridian instrument. There is no doubt as to whether it is the oldest in the Observatory, and the author began inspection. As for him, the telescope called a meridian instrument made in this 1875 came to have the conviction that was transferred from the Department of the Interior geography station of the Meiji government to Tokyo Astronomical Observatory.
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