A Prussian and later German state observatory founded in Berlin in 1700, famous for the 1846 discovery of the planet Neptune there by Johann Gottfried Galle, working from calculations by the French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier. Its historic instruments and functions were dispersed among several successor institutions across the twentieth century.
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1. Wikipedia: Berlin Observatory
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It has its origins in 1700 when Gottfried Leibniz initiated the
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The main instrument was a new refractor from the Munich workshop of Joseph von Fraunhofer
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The Berlin Observatory (German: Berliner Sternwarte) is a German astronomical institution with a series of observatories and related organizations in and around the city of Berlin in Germany, starting from the 18th century.
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