Museum of Astronomy and Geophysics
Piazza Roma, 22 Modena 41100 - Italy
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The Museum of Astronomy and Geophysics is housed in the historic headquarters of the Geophysics Observatory. In the east tower of the Ducal Palace on a decree by Duke Francesco IV d’Este, the Astronomy Observatory was founded in 1826, later to become the Geophysics Observatory. The Museum is an example of scientific study dating from 1820 to 1920. There some ancient astronomical, meteorological and geophysical instruments in the same setting where they were actually used. With Newtonian telescopes of the 19th century, astronomical pendulums, various table instruments, and a map of the moon dating from 1600.
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