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Term: Paris

Description

Captured & fortified by Romans in 52 BC; ruled by Clovis from 486; besieged by Northmen 885-887; held by English 1420-1436; center for Revolution 1789-1792; taken by Germans 1870-1871; site of many international political conferences 18th-20th cen.

Objects

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photograph of solar halo

1883 - 1886

Melloni optical bench with accessories

1860-1875

bell jar with brass stopcock and mercury manometer

circa 1859

tangent galvanometer

circa 1870

tripod for prismatic astrolabe, no. 55

1900-1950

People

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Albert Marloye

1795 - 1874

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Rousseau Frères

1820 - 1870

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Rudolph Koenig

1832 - 1901

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Aristide Cavaillé-Coll

1811 - 1899

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Théodore and Albert Duboscq

circa 1880 - 1890