Talk:Meridian circle

message: Surely it is relevant to include at least some mention of the British Astronomer Royal Sir George Biddell Airy (1801-1892), who in 1850 built the transit circle telescope at Greenwich. The location of that telescope was subsequently chosen to define the location of Earth's prime meridian. Samatva (talk) 15:24, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Scant mention of George Airy??

message: The OCR from 1911 Britannica is a hopeless mess.  Unless somebody has a print version to correct it from, it could just as well be thrown out. Gene Nygaard 20:49, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I cleaned it up. I think the text is now mostly correct. I removed the footnotes that had gotten mixed up in the article. If someone thinks they're important, they could be readded, but I don't think they are necessary. The article still needs updating, though. In particular, the description may be very different from what is used today, if the instrument is used at all. -- Kjkolb 23:06, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

text: The section lifted from the Encyc. Britannica is very out of date. No one looks through a transit telescope anymore - its all CCD. Even since the early 1900's, an "impersonal micrometer" was used, which followed the star in right ascension by means of a drive mechanism, so the observer merely had to finely tweak the crosshairs in two directions, rather than time the passage of the star across some crosshairs (always several of them, in order to average out errors). Tfr000 (talk) 18:08, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

text: Well, I did a lot of modernizing of language, updating of descriptions, elimination of "current" information which went obsolete 100 years ago... added some graphics, added some references... improved the flow and the organization... etc. etc. Not quite finished, but its looking pretty decent now. Tfr000 (talk) 20:53, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: 1911 Britannica mess

message: I think meridian circle and transit telescope are one and the same instrument, so the two pages should be merged. Rlupsa (talk) 16:09, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge with "Transit telescope"

message: These are mentioned in the text. I put a link to friction roller, but the page doesn't exist. I think such a page possibly should: friction roller search. HonestIntelligence (talk) 09:19, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Friction Rollers 

message: This article was originally pulled from an old encyclopedia article and dropped here. It has since been expanded and referenced - it now has 17 citations. Do we really need more? Tfr000 (talk) 15:12, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  more citations? 

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