Australia's earliest planispheres

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Dec 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003jbaa..113..329o&link_type=abstract

Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol.113, no.6, p.329-332

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Australia's earliest-known planispheres were made by a Sydney amateur astronomer named George Butterfield in 1870 and 1877, although a similar but more crudely-made 'noctural dial' was created by Philip Parker King in 1852. This paper discusses these pioneering endeavours, other nineteenth century attempts to popularise astronomy, and the prevailing astronomical climate in Australia at that time.

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