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Established at Buen Retiro in 1790. When the French occupiedMadrid in 1808, they set up a battery at that place, and the instrumentswere destroyed by fire. The observatory then abandoned was not re-stored until 1846. In 1852 the grounds were enlarged, and a pavillionwith a revolving turret was erected.
Observatorio del Ateneo Municipal.
Longitude from Greenwich, 8 h 3 m 48.6 8 E.
Latitude, 14° 35' 25" N.
Directors : P. Francisco Colina, 1865-1866.
P. Federico Fanra, 1866-1871.
P. Jose Canudas, 1871-1873.
P. Jose Minores, 1873-1877.
P. Francisco Sanchez, 1877-1878.
P. Federico Fanra, 1878.
The observatory was founded in 1865. In the year 1859 T. VERNACAIprojected an observatory in which he should be intrusted with thehydrographic commission for this archipelago. With this object inview instruments were purchased, but never mounted by the hydro-graphic commission, and remained in the observatory of the municipalAthenaeum from 1865 to 1873.
Grossherzogliche Sternwarie.
Longitude from Greenwich, 35 m 50.52 s E.
Latitude, 45° 29' 11" FT.
Directors : 0. Marger, 1764.
K. J. Konig, 1783.
J. 17. Fischer, 1786.
P. Ungeschick, 1788.
R. Barry, 1788.
H. G. Schumacher, 1813.
F. B. G. Nicolai,-.
A. M. Nelle, 1852.
E. SCHONFELD, 1859.
W. Valentiner, 1875.
First established in the electoral castle of Schwetzingen , 6J miles(10 kilometers) from Mannheim , *and in 1772 removed to the west ofthe town where it was located in a tower 105 feet (32 meters) in diameter,with remarkably thick walls.
Transferred to Karlsruhe in 1879. (See Karlsruhe .)
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