{
  "id": "astro-ph/9902030",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "1999-02-01T22:53:42.000Z",
  "updated": "1999-03-02T00:15:57.000Z",
  "title": "Observatories",
  "authors": [
    "Kevin Krisciunas"
  ],
  "comment": "12 pages, 1 postscript figure included, for Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Institute of Physics Publishing",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "I give a brief history of astronomical observatories as an institution. This includes: 1) observatories in Islam; 2) China and India; 3) early European observatories; 4) the rise of national observatories; 5) private (amateur) observatories; 6) mountaintop observatories and the modern era. Additional references, to material not cited in the version that will be published in the encyclopedia, are also given.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "1999-03-02T00:15:57.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "brief history",
      "early european observatories",
      "national observatories",
      "mountaintop observatories",
      "additional references"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 12,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 494756,
      "adsabs": "1999astro.ph..2030K"
    }
  }
}