Word: greenwich
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Gourlie, Greenwich, Conn...
Astronomers -- Harvard, 6; Greenwich, 5; Washington...
Assistant astronomers--Harvard, 13; Greenwich, 5; Washington...
Computers--Harvard, 18; Greenwich, 24; Washington...
...work done by the different observatories varies greatly in character. Private observatories attend chiefly to some special research for which their equipments or situations are favorable. At Greenwich the work consists of testing chronometers for the navy; of transit reductions and determinations of time. The observatory at Pulkowa is pre-eminent for the extreme accuracy of its observations. To this end the apparatus is of a special design and of great accuracy; the methods adopted there sixty years ago are said still to be far in advance of those at present existing in any other government observatory. The Kiel Observatory...