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Harvard's First High-Altitude Station

Volume 18 number 1 (1989)

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Barbara L. Welther
Harvard-Smithsonian Center

Abstract

A review is given of the science and politics of some events that took place a century ago when Edward Pickering, the fourth director of Harvard College Observatory, set out to put telescopes on mountain tops in both the northern and southern hemispheres.