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Meridian circle built by Paul Gautier

Meridian circle built by Paul Gautier

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URI: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12111/1279
Contributor: Photographer unknown
Identifier: EB 154
Subject: Astronomical instruments
Observatório Nacional (Brazil)
Date: undated
Type: Image
Format: Amber tint
Repository: Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA
Collection: Photograph collection - Einstein-- EB Series-barn collection\21-EB PHOTOS-A.E. other (1 of 1)
Rights: Permission to use this image must be requested from the Institute's Archives. Please contact archives@ias.edu.

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This meridian circle (also called: transit-circle or transit telescope), which is an astronomical instrument used for taking measurements relating to stars, was built for Brazil's Observatório Nacional at the end of the nineteenth century by the celebrated French maker of scientific instruments, Paul Gautier.

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