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Posted: 29 Jun 2013

Taken: 03 Dec 2009

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Lat, Lng:  51.760808, -1.263782
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Address:  Walton Manor, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England

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Green Templeton common room

Green Templeton common room
Radcliffe Observatory - the first floor, originally the library, is now used as a common room for Green Templeton College
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"The Observatory was built at the suggestion of Dr Thomas Hornsby, the Savilian Professor of Astronomy, after he had used a room in the nearby Radcliffe Infirmary to observe the transit of Venus across the sun's disc in 1769. The transit was a notable event which helped to produce greatly improved measurements for nautical navigation.

Beneath the Tower itself are rooms at each of three levels: the ground floor is now the College dining room, the first floor, originally the library, is now used as the Common Room, and on the top floor is the magnificent octagonal observing room."

www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/about/history/radcliffe-observatory

Observatory at Green Templeton
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