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==Further reading== * Aubin, David; Charlotte Bigg, and [[H. Otto Sibum]], eds. ''The Heavens on Earth: Observatories and Astronomy in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture'' (Duke University Press; 2010) 384 pages; Topics include astronomy as military science in Sweden, the [[Pulkovo Observatory]] in the Russia of [[Czar Nicholas I]], and physics and the astronomical community in late 19th-century America. * [[Brunier, Serge]], et al. ''Great Observatories of the World'' (2005). * [[Steven J. Dick|Dick, Steven]]. [http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item5708676/?site_locale=en_GB ''Sky and Ocean Joined: The U.S. Naval Observatory 1830–2000''] (2003). * Gressot Julien and Jeanneret Romain, « Determining the right time, or the establishment of a culture of astronomical precision at Neuchâtel Observatory in the mid-19th century », ''Journal for the History of Astronomy'', ''53''(1), 2022, 27–48, https://doi.org/10.1177/00218286211068572 * Leverington, David. ''Observatories and Telescopes of Modern Times – Ground-Based Optical and Radio Astronomy Facilities since 1945.'' Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2017, {{ISBN|9780521899932}}. * [[McCray, W. Patrick]]. ''Giant Telescopes: Astronomical Ambition and the Promise of Technology'' (2004); focuses on the [[Gemini Observatory]]. * Sage, Leslie, and Gail Aschenbrenner. ''A Visitor's Guide to the Kitt Peak Observatories'' (2004).
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