Astronomy in China: The Pekin Observatory, 1888
Oct 25, 2012

Observatoire de Peking (c. 1790). Work this week has necessitated going through more 19th-century journals. For a while now I’ve had some downloaded copies of Scientific News, a kind of London equivalent of Scientific American, but I hadn’t noticed this particular article until I had to look through it again. The uncredited piece describes the [...]
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