On 23rd April 1858 Dr John Pringle Nichol (1804-1859) FRAS FRSE purchased for Glasgow University an object glass 6.5 inches aperture for the transit instrument.
The old glass to be improved and made worthy of a rough equatorial mounting.
In 1856 he was appointed Professor of Practical Astronomy at the University of Glasgow.
John Pringle was born in Brechin in Forfarshire and educated at King’s College Aberdeen. Although he studied with a view to entrenching the church it was science road he would follow.
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