19th Century British Literature--Fall 2022 Dashboard
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A COVE group for 19th Century British Literature, University of Detroit Mercy.
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The Freemasons Tavern is the location of the Royal Astronomical Society's first meeting, a dinner attended by 14 men on January 12th, 1820.
Sources:
https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/astronomy-19th-century
The original location of the Berlin Observatory, shown on this map as Markthalle II:
The Berlin Observatory first opened in 1835 and was eventually moved and split into several locations across Berlin and even other parts of Germany, like the Babelsberg Observatory in Potsdam. On September 4th, 1846, it was the site of the planet Neptune's discovery by Johann Gottfried Galle and his student, Louis d'Arrest.
Sources:
https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/astronomy-19th-century