Illuminating incidents in antipodean astronomy: John Tebbutt and the founding of the Windsor Observatory

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Oct 1988

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Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol.98, no.6, p.287-293

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Historical: Australian Astronomy, Biography: Tebbutt, J.

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For much of the second half of the nineteenth century, John Tebbutt was
Australia's foremost astronomer. In this paper, the circumstances
surrounding his founding of the Windsor Observatory in 1863 are
examined, and the design of the Observatory is evaluated in the light of
overseas trends at the time.

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