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  2. Rome Observatory - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. National Institute for Astrophysics - Wikipedia

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    The National Institute for Astrophysics (Italian: Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, or INAF) is an Italian research institute in astronomy and astrophysics, founded in 1999. INAF funds and operates twenty separate research facilities, which in turn employ scientists, engineers and technical staff.

  4. Vatican Observatory - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Free Press - Wikipedia

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    Free Press, the journal of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom; The Free Press Journal, an Indian daily newspaper; Columbus Free Press, a former monthly "alternative" journal published in Columbus, Ohio, now published as Free Press newspaper, Free Press Express broadsheet and on the website freepress.org

  6. Triquetrum (astronomy) - Wikipedia

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    Triquetrum of Copernicus. The triquetrum (derived from the Latin tri-["three"] and quetrum ["cornered"]) was the medieval name for an ancient astronomical instrument first described by Ptolemy (c. 90 – c. 168) in the Almagest (V. 12).

  7. Dioptra - Wikipedia

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    Michael Jonathan Taunton Lewis (2001), Surveying Instruments of Greece and Rome, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-79297-5; Lucio Russo (2004), The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had To Be Reborn, Berlin: Springer. ISBN 3-540-20396-6. Evans, J., (1998) The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy, pages 34 ...

  8. Astronomicum Caesareum - Wikipedia

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    Astronomicum Caesareum (Astronomy of the Caesars; [1] also translated as The Emperor's Astronomy [2]) is a book by Petrus Apianus first published in 1540. Astronomicum was initially published in 1540. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and his brother Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, both commissioned the work. [3]

  9. Italy Between the Arts and Sciences - Wikipedia

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    It forms the backdrop to the stage in the Great Hall of Sapienza University of Rome. Combining elements of both classical and modernist art, the mural depicts a central figure of Italy portrayed as a goddess at war, flanked by allegorical figures representing the arts and sciences: Astronomy, Mineralogy, Botany, Geography, Architecture, Letters ...