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sor, James Simms, in conjunction with the
engineers, Ransome and May, to construct
an altazimuth with three-foot circles, and
a five-foot telescope, in 1847. The result
was that the number of lunar observations
was immediately increased threefold, many
of them being in a part of the moon’s orbit
which had previously been bare of observa-
tions. From that date the Greenwich lunar
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