Astronomical Transit
date: label: date made
content: 1844
notes: label: Description
content: This astronomical transit is one of the original instruments purchased for the observatory that opened at Georgetown College in 1844. It has a 4.6-inch objective. The inscription probably reads "Ertel & Sohn."
label: Description
content: The necessary funds ($1,180 plus shipping from Munich) were provided by Meredith Jenkins, a young Jesuit studying before his ordination.
label: Description
content: Ref: <i>Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Georgetown College</i> No. 1 (1852), pp. 27-31.
label: Description
content: Elias Loomis, An Introduction to Practical Astronomy (New York, 1855), pp. 493-494.
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Bavaria, Munich
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.327724
label: accession number
content: 270027
label: catalog number
content: 327724
objectType: label: Object Name
content: astronomical transit