The Amateur's Small Transit Instrument of the 19TH-CENTURY

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Mar 1987

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Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 28, NO.1/MAR, P. 30, 1987

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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The owners of today's digital watches and the listeners to Dyson's signature tune little realize how difficult it was in the nineteenth century to check that watches were telling the right time. If one lived in the country one had to rely either on the Sun and note carefully the time of apparent noon by recording when the Sun crossed the meridian, or on the stars and use the sidereal day and specific meridian transits to set and regulate your watches. To help these country dwellers, entrepreneurs such as Latimer Clark, Edward Dent and C. A. Steinheil produced inexpensive transit instruments that could be used by the non-scientific amateurs. These instruments, their setting up, use and accuracy are reviewed in this paper.

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