OBSERVATORY. 
tifts, and a fucceffion of very learned men have obferved there. 
Th 
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conduted the Vienna Ephemeris, and _ work is now con- 
tinued by oo Eager his fucce 
t GoTTINGEN ati an ceEAaioey memorable by 
the ia. ‘of Tobias Mae. and by thofe more recently o 
Harding, who Geo the planet Juno in 1804. 
At oo an oS ratory was built fo oo as the 
year 1678, and another and M. 
Wuzzelbau hae di Ringuifed themfelves here both as able 
authors and accurate obfervers. 
At Cc an sheen was built, in 1714, b 
Charles I., landgra ave of Heffe, heir to the territories and 
tafte of the celebrated William, the early friend and fellow 
labourer of Tycho Brahe. 
In 1740 an obfervatory was built at Grieflen; and in 
1768 at Ourtfbourg, in Franconia. In 1788 there was one 
built at Leipfic, on an old tower of great tirmnefs. Obfer- 
vatories have been likewife erected and fupported with great 
credit at en Cremfmuniter, Lambach, Polling, 
Prague, and Gra 
At Bremen ie is an obfervatory belonging id Dr. 
Olbers, an eminent phyfician, who has rendered his name 
immortal by the difcovery of the two new planets, Pallas and 
See PLANET. 
At LitientHat, near Bremén, M. Schroeter, governor 
of the diftri&t, erected an obfervatory about the year 1786, 
and furnifhed it with excellent inftruments. He is highly 
celebrated as an accurate and interefting obferver, parti- 
cularly of the furfaces and rotations of the planets and the 
moon e approaches nearer ee any other aftronomer to 
Dr. Herfehel in telefcopic difcover 
At SEEBERG, near Gotha, a cou ete pao eral was 
built, in the year 1788, aE ine a“ of Saxe Gotha, and 
n Zach, fie fuperintend- 
him their homage. 
moft beautiful and complete in ae ay ; it is fituated on a fine 
elevation, about a ari from the tow here is here a large 
tranfit, wit murals of eight feet adie. and a circle of 
eight feet raat deg all by Ramfden and his fucceffor og a 
At Brunswick there is an obfervatory belonging to 
Gaufs, well known by his eee irete of the orbits of 
the new planets, and other important la 
n NGARY there are obfervatories at ‘Buda, Tyrnau, and 
Erlau. Similar eftablifhments are alfo at Greiffswalde in 
Pomerania, and at Mittau in Courlan 
In Poxanp there is an obfervatory at 'Cpacows and eee 
at Wilna : the latter was built and richly endowed by the co 
made by Ram {den. 
1 bh fe hal 
n SWEDEN 
Upfal; that at Stockholm was founded in 1746, by the Aca- 
demy of Sciences. In 17 argentin was appointed aftro- 
nomer to it, and in 1783 he was fucceeded by Nicander. This 
obfervatory is fituated on a hill north of the town, and 
contains a good collection of inftruments, all made by English 
artilts 
Vou. XXV. 
Tt at St 
The obfervatory = Upfal was built and endowed in 1739 
the king of Sweden: it was firft fuperintended by the 
celebrated Celfius, at a has bea Followed by a fucceffion of 
able ur particularly Hooker and Wargent e 
atter is wel n as the author of the tables "of Jupi- 
ter’s fatellites. 
At Danrzic there was an old bath celebrated as 
having been ufed by Hevelius, who has give a full defer a 
tion of it in his work, entitled «¢ Machina Coletti. An 
obfervatory was a Ifo built in that city m the year ae, 
and is at prefent fuperintended by Dr. Wolff. 
t CorpENHAGEN the famous aftronomical tower was 
finifhed in 1656. It was built by king Chriftian IV. at the 
recommendation of Longomontanus, and has been for man 
years under the barrie ee of Mr. Bugge, who is celebrated 
as a very. able aftronomer. In his colleGtion of obferva- 
tories, he ftates that fe kings of Denmark had eftablifhed 
obfervatories in Norway, Iceland, and Greenlan 
n FioLLAND attention was ere to pala aftronomy 
ile i ut the fcience has of late 
been much negle€ted. In 1690 an obfervatory was ereCted ' 
ee the college of the univerfity, and at Utrecht an ancient 
wer was, in 1726, converted into an obfervatory. Here 
the celebrated Van Muffchenbroek obferved for many 
years with great accuracy, and he was fucceeded by M. 
nert. 
In Spain obfervatories have been built at Cadiz, Madrid, 
Seville, and Car thagena. The obfervations made at C 
pain differ very little from thofe 
years, however, Englifh inftruments have been introduced 
there 
At Lisgon, in 1728, king John V. had an obfervatory 
erected at his palace, which was well furnifhed, and accurate 
obfervations have been made there by the Jefuits, who alfo 
St. Anth 
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1787, a Royal obfervatory was co af oe at the 
Giick de St. George, in Lifbon, which was fuperintended 
. Cuftodio Gomez. ‘There is alfo one at CoimBra, 
which contains a fine equatorial by Troughton. 
i whan an obfervatory was built, in 1725, by 
ar Peter, who fhewed great zeal for fcience in general, 
a par eines for aftronomy. n he was in England, 
ome years before that period, he vifited the Royal 
Obfervatory at perl alike » where he examined both the 
building an inftruments with very great attention. 
oe cbteratory which = saat built is one of the 
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cent in Eur is 130 Jeet high, with 
thre ores ‘all oF for aes soniical purpofes. M. del’l 
ccording to La a great number of 
chie fly by Ca ry 
penfe, on the fouthern part on the Roman co llece, a very 
fine obfervatory, with the large fector of father Bofcovich, 
and other inftruments by Ramfden and Dollond ; the a 
Calandrelli abferved here pon great attention and pee? 
Pp or 
