Nature June 1st 1876
The Observatory at Athens
The death is announced of Baron Simon von Sina, son of the
founder of the observatory at Athens, which has been under the direction of M
Bouris and Herr Julius Schmidt.
The deceased Baron is mentioned as a liberal patron of this
establishment, though not himself engaged in scientific pursuits, and Herr
Schmidt writes doubtfully of the future of the observatory.
Every astronomer will entertain the hope that this most
laborious and successful observer –
distinguished not only by his great work upon the Moon, but for his numerous
discoveries and observations of variable stars, his long and important series
of observations of comets, of short period and otherwise, in which he made
excellent use of the advantages of his southern position, and many other
valuable contributions to observational
astronomy – may continue to hold, under favourable auspices, the direction of
an establishment which his excerptions have made so honourably known in the
astronomical world.
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