Nature April 2 1874
Astronomers will be interested to learn that among the
numerous able men whom the president of the republic of Ecuador has gathered to
that city in order to develop the University of Quito, there has appeared one, Father
Menten, whose interest in astronomy has been such as promises to settle the
long mooted question as to an observatory in that city.
Menten has now returned to Quito laden with a portion of
that instrument outfit that he was ordered to secure at Munich. Among the
apparatus is a six inch meridian circle. Father Menten was for some time a
pupil of the eminent Argelander.
www.theramblingastronomer.co.uk
No comments:
Post a Comment