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Definition of Observatories
1. observatory [n] - See also: observatory
Lexicographical Neighbors of Observatories
Literary usage of Observatories
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The instrumenta employed in observatories have of course -changed considerably
during the last two hundred years. When the first royal observatories were ..."
2. History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time by William Whewell (1857)
"Observatories. ASTRONOMY, which is thus benefited by the erection of large and
stable instruments, requires also the establishment of permanent ..."
3. History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time by William Whewell (1859)
"Observatories. ASTRONOMY, which is thus benefited by the erection of large and
stable instruments, requires also the establishment of permanent ..."
4. The Observatory by Royal Astronomical Society (Gran Bretaña), Royal Greenwich Observatory, NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service, Royal astronomical society GB (1899)
"In large observatories it is not unusual to establish a number of departments,
each under the entire charge of an astronomer who is often unaided by ..."
5. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific by Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1891)
"Part II contains Notes of a Visit to Certain European Observatories, etc., together
with admirable illustrations of some of the more important buildings and ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"When science again began to be cultivated after the dark ages which followed, we
find several observatories founded by Arabian princes; ..."
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