Maunder, an astronomer on the Greenwich staff, tells the observatory’s story from Flamsteed, Halley and their successors to Airy, then takes the reader through its buildings and departments: the time service and chronometers, the transit circle, the altazimuth, magnetic and meteorological work, and the photographic record of sunspots.
An insider’s tour, from 1900, of the place where longitude and the world’s clocks begin. Download the free EPUB.