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Not sure how many Edinburgh-based folk are on here (and following me), but I’m giving a talk to the Old Edinburgh Club on 18 January about the city and its observatory in the 19th century
#edinburgh #observatories #history #astronomy #histsci #histSTM #histastro
Happy solstice!
This print, showing the seasons, equinoxes and solstices, is one of the first things I catalogued way back when I worked at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. Description here: https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-263835
Somehow I had never come across Roger Long’s 18thC Zodiac ‘planetarium’ before seeing this illustration reproduced at the Adler Planetarium yesterday. Surely that was never actually built, I thought, and then I found this 19thC photo of it today
(Credits: Bodleian and Science Photo Library) #astronomy #histsci #histSTM #planetarium
I love a bit of east coast geology in the morning