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Monte Porzio Catone is located approximately 20 kilometres southeast of Rome proper. The Astronomical Observatory of Rome (OAR) was established in 1938, inside the 19th-century Villa Mellini on the hill of Monte Mario in Rome. In the same period, a new Observatory was built in Monteporzio Catone, in order to host a large telescope.
The Vatican Observatory (Italian: Specola Vaticana) is an astronomical research and educational institution supported by the Holy See.Originally based in the Roman College of Rome, the Observatory is now headquartered in Castel Gandolfo, Italy and operates a telescope at the Mount Graham International Observatory in the United States.
Adolphe Rome (July 12, 1889, Stavelot – 9 April 1971, Korbeek-Lo) was a Belgian classical philologist and science historian who was particularly concerned with the ancient history of astronomy. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
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Historically, optical astronomy, which has been also called visible light astronomy, is the oldest form of astronomy. [58] Images of observations were originally drawn by hand. In the late 19th century and most of the 20th century, images were made using photographic equipment.
The Revival of Planetary Astronomy in Carolingian and Post-Carolingian Europe. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Vol. CS 279. Ashgate. ISBN 0-86078-868-7. Hodson, F. R., ed. (1974). The Place of Astronomy in the Ancient World: A Joint Symposium of the Royal Society and the British Academy. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-725944-8.
Rome is often referred to as the City of Seven Hills due to its geographic location, and also as the "Eternal City". Rome is generally considered to be the cradle of Western civilization and Western Christian culture, and the centre of the Catholic Church. [7] [8] [9] Rome's history spans 28 centuries.
In 1844, he began theological studies in Rome, and was ordained a priest on 12 September 1847. In 1848, due to the Roman Revolution , the Jesuits were ordered to leave Rome. Secchi spent the next two years in the United Kingdom at Stonyhurst College , where he met Alfred Weld , the Jesuit astronomer in charge of the Stonyhurst Observatory, who ...