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OF the numerous instruments with which Leverrier enriched the Paris Observatory during the twenty years of his direction, the last which he was able to see completely installed was the new transit circle. This instrument was not, like all the others, constructed at the expense of the State; an inscription on the marble pillars that support it informs the visitor that it was presented to the Observatory by the generous munificence of M. Raphaël Bischoffsheim. This is not the only gift of M. Bischoffsheim to astronomy; the Observatory of Lyons is also indebted to him for its fundamental instrument.
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The New Paris Transit Circle 1 . Nature 17, 165–168 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/017165a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/017165a0