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west face of the observatory

west face of the observatory
Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford
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The Observatory was built at the suggestion of Dr Thomas Hornsby, the Savilian Professor of Astronomy, after he had used a room in the nearby Radcliffe Infirmary to observe the transit of Venus across the sun's disc in 1769.

www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/about/history/radcliffe-observatory

Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford
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