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Mural Quadrant, by John Bird, London, 1773, at the Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford |
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John Bird provided the foundation instruments of the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, in the early 1779, including two 8-ft mural quadrants. On can be seen in the Museum of the History of Science at the University of Oxford. The other one is now in the Science Museum, London). The first director, Thomas Hornsby, planned an observatory that would rival Grreenwich and Bird was acknowledged as the best maker of astronomical instruments in the world: There is unquestionabley but one Person living, who is capable of making them, Hornsby told the Radcliffe Trustees.
Mounted on a wall aligened with the meridian, this was one of the instruments used to measure the position of the stars in declination.
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