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Show The Oldest Observatory. ftp clOTvatrfry .nt nkln Is the clJcsl lu the world, hiving been founded In 1279 by Kublai Khan, the first erajieror of the Mogul dynasty. There are still In it three or tho first Instruments or observation. observa-tion. These were ued tor theob servatlouofHalley'acometln 175S, and may a!o bo us-d when twenty-two twenty-two years hence, this comet again anpean". The oldo-t obervatorv in kilropa Js that ioundfcd by Jvlug Frederick III. of Denmark on the Island ot Hyccn, In tbe bound, and where the famous Danish astronomer, astrono-mer, Tycho Brahe, carried out his celebrated obcrvatlors, among others that of the "I right" star In Casiopela. The Paris observatory was established in 1G71, and that of Greenwich three years later. Montreal Star. |
