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WHEN Charles II decided in, 1675 to found an observatory for “rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so-much desired longitude of place for the perfecting the art of navigation”, he provided a site in the Royal Park at Greenwich, “upon the highest ground, at or near the place where the Castle stood”. Sir Christopher Wren was appointed architect of the observatory, and the pleas ing building which he designed “for the observator's habitation and a little for pompe”, as he wrote in one of his letters, still stands, a symbol of the con tinuity between the observatory of to-day and the observatory of 1675.
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JONES, H. The Royal Greenwich Observatory. Nature 158, 80–81 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158080a0
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