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    Johann Georg Repsold. He established the company A. & G. Repsold along with his brother and it was continued by his son Johann Adolf Repsold under the name...
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    the knife edges. Bessel didn't construct such a pendulum, but in 1864 Adolf Repsold, under contract to the Swiss Geodetic Commission, developed a symmetric...
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    Adolf Repsold continued the well-known astronomical instrument firm as the A. & G. Repsold company, which later became A. Repsold und Söhne (Repsold &...
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    pendulum, but in 1864 Adolf Repsold, under contract by the Swiss Geodetic Commission made a pendulum along these lines. The Repsold pendulum was about 56 cm...
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    Alpha Centauri. Precise measurements with a new meridian circle from Adolf Repsold allowed Bessel to notice deviations in the motions of Sirius and Procyon...
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    also be attributed to Bessel. He devised a gravimeter constructed by Adolf Repsold which was first used in Switzerland by Emile Plantamour, Charles Sanders...
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    construction in 1875, in the Neustadt district. The main instrument was a 50 cm Repsold refractor, which saw first light in 1880 (see Great refractor). At the...
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    the City Observatory, Edinburgh, the telescope itself being completed by Repsold of Hamburg after Fraunhofer's death. Kurzer Umriß der Lebens-Geschichte...
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  • (1687–1755), German Baroque musician, violinist and composer Johann Georg Repsold (1770–1830), German astronomer Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Johann...
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  • University of Hamburg, Germany DMP · 905 906 Repsolda 1918 ET Johann Georg Repsold (1770–1830), German astronomer, optician and manufacturer of astrometric...
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  • for women and men. Through her younger brother and her fiancé Wilhelm Repsold (a sculptor and graphic artist) she came to the land reform movement and...
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  • different points on the globe by mechanical instruments derived from the Repsold pendulum. Time radio signals made it possible to compare the clocks of...
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    instruments went to the new location: a new 30 cm refractor von Zeiss-Repsold, a meridian circle from Pistor & Martins dating from 1868 with 19 cm aperture...
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    modernizing the inadequate equipment of the observatory, acquiring a new, large Repsold heliometer in 1888. In the following years Schur devoted all of his time...
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    have the equation of their scales. The reversible pendulum built by the Repsold brothers was used in Switzerland in 1865 by Émile Plantamour for the measurement...
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  • of 4066 stars from his observations with the transit micrometer of the Repsold meridian circle, which he improved by installing a clock-work system. His...
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