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a transit instrument and mural circle with
a more powerful telescope. Airy combined
the functions of both, and employed the
same constructors as before to make a transit-
circle with a telescope of eleven and a-half
feet focus and a circle of six-feet diameter,
the object-glass being eight inches in diam-
eter.
Airy, like Bradley, was impressed with
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