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Journal articles on the topic "Royal Greenwich Observatory Greenwich"

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Johnston, Scott Alan. "Managing the observatory: discipline, order and disorder at Greenwich, 1835–1933." British Journal for the History of Science 54, no. 2 (March 19, 2021): 155–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087421000030.

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AbstractThis article presents a case study of life and work at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich (1835–1933) which reveals tensions between the lived reality of the observatory as a social space, and the attempts to create order, maintain discipline and project an image of authority in order to ensure the observatory's long-term stability. Domestic, social and scientific activities all intermingled within the observatory walls in ways which were occasionally disorderly. But life at Greenwich was carefully managed to stave off such disorder and to maintain an appearance of respectability which was essential to the observatory's reputation and output. The article focuses on three areas of management: (1) the observatory's outer boundaries, demonstrating how Greenwich navigated both human and environmental intrusions from the wider world; (2) the house, examining how Greenwich's domestic spaces provided stability, while also complicating observatory life via the management of domestic servants; and (3) the scientific spaces, with an emphasis on the work and play of the observatory's boy computers. Together, these three parts demonstrate that the stability of the observatory was insecure, despite being perpetuated via powerful physical and social boundaries. It had to be continually maintained, and was regularly challenged by Greenwich's occupants and neighbours.

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PENSTON, M. "Royal Greenwich Observatory." Science 232, no. 4756 (June 13, 1986): 1319–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.232.4756.1319-c.

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Pounds, K. "The Royal Greenwich Observatory." Astronomy & Geophysics 39, no. 2 (April 1, 1998): 2.9—a—2.9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/astrog/39.2.2.9-a.

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Longair, M. S. "The Royal Greenwich Observatory." Astronomy & Geophysics 39, no. 3 (June 1, 1998): 3.5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/astrog/39.3.3.5.

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Pollard, J. "Engineering - Places. Royal Observatory Greenwich." Engineering & Technology 16, no. 1 (February 1, 2021): 62–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/et.2021.0124.

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Macdonald, Lee T. "Proposals to Move the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1836–1944." Journal for the History of Astronomy 51, no. 3 (August 2020): 272–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021828620936625.

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In 1939, the British Admiralty agreed to move the Royal Observatory from Greenwich to a better site away from London. The removal was postponed due to the Second World War, and the observatory’s re-establishment at Herstmonceux Castle in Sussex in the 1940s and 1950s was further delayed by post-war economic difficulties. This paper examines several proposals to remove the observatory that were put forward over a period spanning slightly more than a century before 1939 and asks why none of these were taken up. I argue that the lateness of the move was due partly to astronomers’ fears that the observatory would lose its prestige if moved away from the famous Greenwich meridian and also to certain cultural aspects of professional astronomy in early twentieth-century Britain.

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Martin, Jean-Pierre, and Anita McConnell. "Joining the observatories of Paris and Greenwich." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 62, no. 4 (October 21, 2008): 355–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2008.0029.

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In the closing years of the eighteenth century, France and Britain enjoyed a period of external peace that their scientific communities put to good use by finding an objective common to the leading academic institutions: the Académie royale des sciences in France, and the Royal Society in England. This was not an entirely new concept; the novelty was that the objective would be brought about by teams from each side working outside their own borders. It was part of both nations' long-running search for a means of establishing longitudes on land and at sea. The specific objective, however, was confined to establishing the accurate difference in longitude between the meridian of Greenwich Observatory and that of the Observatoire de Paris. Previous astronomical measurements, derived from the times of certain eclipses or transits as recorded at each observatory, were acknowledged to be inaccurate.

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Drabek-Maunder, Emily. "Bringing research back to the Royal Observatory." Astronomy & Geophysics 60, no. 4 (August 1, 2019): 4.11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/astrogeo/atz157.

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Masood, Ehsan. "Royal observatory could return to Greenwich site." Nature 388, no. 6644 (August 1997): 705. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/41849.

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HIGGITT, REBEKAH. "A British national observatory: the building of the New Physical Observatory at Greenwich, 1889–1898." British Journal for the History of Science 47, no. 4 (November 12, 2013): 609–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087413000678.

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AbstractOver its long history, the buildings of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich were enlarged and altered many times, reflecting changing needs and expectations of astronomers and funders, but also the constraints of a limited site and small budgets. The most significant expansion took place in the late nineteenth century, overseen by the eighth Astronomer Royal, William Christie, a programme that is put in the context of changing attitudes toward scientific funding, Christie's ambitious plans for the work and staffing of the Observatory and his desire to develop a national institution that could stand with more recently founded European and American rivals. Examination of the archives reveals the range of strategies Christie was required to use to acquire consent and financial backing from the Admiralty, as well as his opportunistic approach. While hindsight might lead to criticism of his decisions, Christie eventually succeeded in completing a large building – the New Physical Observatory – that, in its decoration, celebrated Greenwich's past while, in its name, style, structure and contents, it was intended to signal the institution's modernization and future promise.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Royal Greenwich Observatory Greenwich"

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Foster, Simon Steven. "Reconstruction of solar irradiance variations for use in studies of global climate change : application of recent SoHO observations with historic data from the Greenwich Observatory." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.408976.

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Books on the topic "Royal Greenwich Observatory Greenwich"

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Royal Observatory Greenwich: Souvenir guide. Greenwich: National Maritime Museum, 2012.

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Peter, Johnson. The history of the Royal Observatory and Royal Greenwich Observatory. Hailsham: Royal Greenwich Observatory, 1987.

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observatory, Greenwich Eng Royal. Telescopes, instruments, research and services: October 1 1980-September 30 1985. Hailsham (Herstmonceux Castle, Hailsham, Sussex BN27 1RP): The Observatory, 1985.

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Howse, Derek. Greenwich time and the longitude. London: Philip Wilson, 1997.

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Birks, John L. John Flamsteed: The first Astronomer Royal at Greenwich. London: Avon Books, 1999.

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Mennim, Eleanor. Transit circle: The story of William Simms, 1793 to 1860. York, England: W. Sessions, 1992.

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Transit circle: The story of William Simms, 1793 to 1860. York, England: W. Sessions, 1992.

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Workshop on Astronomical Measuring Machines (3rd 1984 Hailsham, England). Astronomy from measuring machines: Proceedings of the third Astronomical Measuring Machines Workshop held at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, August 22-24, 1984. [Herstmonceaux Castle, Hailsham, England: Royal Greenwich Observatory, 1985.

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Herstmonceux Conference (38th 1998 Cambridge, England). The stellar initial mass function: 38th Herstmonceux Conference : proceedings of the meeting held at Institute of Astronomy and Royal Greenwich Observatory, Cambridge, UK, 14-18 July, 1998. San Francisco, Calif: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1998.

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Ramzan, David. Royal Greenwich through time. Stroud, Gloustershire: Amberley, 2010.

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Book chapters on the topic "Royal Greenwich Observatory Greenwich"

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Higgitt, Rebekah. "Royal Observatory at Greenwich." In Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, 1–3. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_90-1.

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Gold, Thomas. "Appointment at the Royal Greenwich Observatory." In Taking the Back off the Watch, 91–102. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27588-3_5.

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Zuned, Ahmad. "Museum Tourism: A Comparative Study on the Royal Museum of Greenwich and the Ironbridge Gorge Museum." In Innovative Approaches to Tourism and Leisure, 67–87. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67603-6_5.

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Lambert, Andrew. "‘History is the Sole Foundation for the Construction of a Sound and Living Common Doctrine’:1 the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and Doctrine Development down to BR1806." In The Changing Face of Maritime Power, 33–56. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230509610_4.

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"Royal Observatory at Greenwich." In Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution, 954–74. Routledge, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203801864-96.

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Betts, Jonathan. "Adjusting and Testing Clock B at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich." In Harrison Decoded, 81–101. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198816812.003.0007.

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This paper provides a narrative of the trials and adjustments of Burgess Clock B at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich from 2012 up until 2015, first briefly contrasting this author’s experiences in rating and adjusting conventional regulator technology. Secondly, this paper explains in simple, practical terms how Harrison’s whole precision pendulum system works and comments on the extraordinarily successful results of the trials.

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McEvoy, Rory. "Introducing the Precision Pendulum Clock." In Harrison Decoded, 1–19. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198816812.003.0001.

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This chapter provides historical context to the development of the precision pendulum clock. It primarily looks at the historical astronomical clocks at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich; their use, acquisition, and modification to demonstrate that there was continual desire for better timekeeping in the Observatory. It argues that the core theoretical principals in clock making began with Robert Hooke’s demonstration to the Royal Society in 1669 and remained largely unchanged through to the obsolescence of pendulum time standards in the mid-1900s. By studying historical experiments into the effects of weather variation on pendulum clocks, it will familiarise the reader with the physical effects on pendulum clocks that are critical to the study of Martin Burgess’s Clock B.

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van Baak, Tom. "Crunching the Numbers." In Harrison Decoded, 102–24. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198816812.003.0008.

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This chapter offers an in-depth analysis and examination of measurement data for Clock B, trialled from 2012 to 2016 at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. It evaluates the merits and shortcomings of barometric and temperature compensation, based on data gathered after adjustments made to the clock in 2014. The clock clearly met John Harrison’s claim of accuracy to within one second in 100 days in the 2015 peer-reviewed trial; however, Harrison did not outline the conditions of measuring accuracy. This paper explores potential methods for quantifying clock accuracy and lays bare details of the electronic measurement system. The raw data yielded some apparent anomalous values, which are unpicked and explained.

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Chapman, Allan. "The King’s Observatory at Greenwich and the First Astronomers Royal: Flamsteed to Bliss." In Mathematics at the Meridian, 17–44. Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781351253901-2.

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"Gravitation. Greenwich Observatory." In Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution, 480–95. Routledge, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203801864-53.

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Conference papers on the topic "Royal Greenwich Observatory Greenwich"

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Levitin, Daniel J. "The perception of cross-modal simultaneity (or “the Greenwich Observatory Problem” revisited)." In Third international conference on computing anticipatory systems (CASYS'99). AIP, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1291270.

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