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IN your number of November 8 (p. 46), you gave an account of a lecture by Mr. S. M. Russell, of Pekin, on the instruments in the old Observatory there. May I mention that the late Alex. Wylie, about nine or ten years ago, published a full account of them (with illustrations) in the “Travaux de la 3me Session du Congrès International des Orientalistes,” vol. ii. Having had my attention drawn to them by some photographs kindly sent me by Mr. Russell, I pointed out the scientific interest of Ko Show-King's instruments (which anticipated the ideas of Tycho Brahe by three hundred years), in a paper published in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, vol. iii., 1881, and in Copernicus, vol. i.
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DREYER, J. The Astronomical Observatory of Pekin. Nature 39, 55 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/039055b0
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