bischoffsheim's

Updated: May 5, 2025

Its resumption, after some years, was rendered possible by M. Bischoffsheim's gift of 25,000 francs for expenses, and the coudé or "bent" equatoreal has been, since 1882, one of the leading instruments at the Paris establishment. Its principle is briefly this: The telescope is, as it were, its own polar axis.

Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke - A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century: Fourth Edition

A beautiful experiment of the same kind was performed by M. Thollon, of M. Bischoffsheim's observatory at Nice, in the summer of 1880.

Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke - A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century: Fourth Edition