716 REPOETS OF ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORIES. 



S. P. EiGAUD, 1827; 



M. J. Johnson, 1839; 



E. Main, 1860; 



E. J. Stone, 1878. 

 Founded in 1772, with the help of a legacy from Radcliffe. The 

 ground was donated by the Duke of Marlborough. ' Time has been 

 noted by means of a chronograph since 1858. 



Padova, Italy. 

 Osservatorio Astronomico delV Universita. 



Longitude from Greenwich, 47"^ 29M3 E. 

 Latitude, 45° 24' 2".5 I^. 

 Directors: G. Toaldo, 1761; 



V. Chiminello, 1797; 

 G. Santini, 1813; 

 G. LORENZONI, 1877. 

 Founded in 1761 by the Venetian senate, and accommodated in a 

 massive tower built in the thirteenth century by the tyrant Ezzelino 

 for a state prison. 



Padua, Italy. 

 See Padova. 



Palermo, Italy. 



R. Osservatorio. 



Longitude from Greenwich, 53™ 25^ E. 

 Latitude, 38° 6' 44" N. 

 Directors : G. PiAzzi, 1787 ; 



N. Cacciatore, 1817 ; 

 G. CacciATORE, 1842; 

 D. Ragona, 1858; 

 G. Cacciatore, 18G0. 

 Proposed in 1786. Established in the Saint Ninfa tower of the Royal 

 Palace, the ancient residence of the Emirs during the Arabian domin- 

 ion. The first complete vertical circle made by Ramsden, and finished 

 in 1789, was mounted in this Observatory. PiAzzi used it from 1792 to 

 1813, for the observations which served him as a basis for his famous 

 catalogue. Ceres was discovered at Palermo on the first day of the 

 nineteenth century. 



