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STRASSBURG OBSERVATORY.—The first contribution to astronomical science of the Kaiserlichen Universitats-Sternwarte in Strassburg is contained in a handsome volume just published by the Director of the Observatory, Prof. E. Becker. This observatory, it may be remembered, was instituted in the year 1872, Dr. August Winnecke being called upon to fill the post of Professor of Astronomy, and make plans for the arrangements of the buildings and instruments. It is quite worth while recording the fact that almost one of the first acts of Germany after the conclusion of the war, was to arrange for the building of this observatory, showing that, to have an astronomical observatory, which should be a seat “der exacten Wissenschaften,” was almost as important as a fortress. No less extraordinary is it that this volume of the “Annalen,” just published, should contain the first full description of the buildings and instruments almost fifteen years after they have been set up. We are led to infer from this that the object of the Germans is, in any case, to collect facts, even if they cannot momentarily be published.
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 55, 14–15 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/055014a0
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