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DescriptionSayre Observatory 1896.jpg | Sayre Observatory, donated to Lehigh University "by Robert H. Sayre, Esq., of South Bethlehem, in 1868. In the dome of the observatory is mounted an equatorial telescope, of six inches aperture, by Alvin Clark & Sons. The west wing contains a superior siderial clock, by Wm. Bond & Sons; a zenith telescope, by Blunt, and a field transit, by Stackpole. There is also a prismatic sextant, by Pistor & Martins. Students in practical astronomy receive instruction in the use of the instruments and in actual observation." Edmund M. Hyde, The Lehigh University, a Historical Sketch, 1896. |
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Source | The Lehigh University, a Historical Sketch, by Edmund M. Hyde, 1896. |
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