Meeting contribution: Astronomers and oddities: the RAS and its library

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Oct 2003

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Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol.113, no.5, p.301-302

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Mr Hingley expressed his privilege at having been invited to address the Association for the first time. He explained that the RAS library placed an emphasis on keeping items of great obscurity and rarity, rather than those such as Newton's Principia, which are found in many other academic libraries. Its archive included the original photographic plate of an astrophotograph of the 1882 comet. This plate marked the start of astrophotography as we know it today. The library had been used on many occasions in tracing early observations.

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