Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo Giuseppe S. Vaiana


HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY

The research programme in History of Astronomy originated from the need to collate and preserve the rich astronomical heritage of the Observatory, which includes historical instruments, books and archives, accumulated over the past two centuries of scientific activity carried out in this institution. Its recent development has turned it into a self-standing research branch, whose preferential topics, described below, are:

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