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The Physical Tourist¶Scientific Travels in the Irish Countryside

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Newly-prosperous Ireland has a number of sites which the scientific traveller can visit. There are apparatus museums at Birr and Maynooth, and a collection of early apparatus at the physics department of the Irish National University in Galway. The main attraction at Birr is the Rosse Telescope, with its 6-ft diameter speculum, built in the 1840s, and recently refurbished. Travellers to Northern Ireland can see applied geology at the Giant's Causeway.

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Greenslade, Jr., T. The Physical Tourist¶Scientific Travels in the Irish Countryside. Phys. perspect. 2, 313–326 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s000160050048

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  • Key words. History of science; Ireland; Rosse Telescope; St. Patrick's College; Birr Demense; Irish National Museum (Galway); Giant's Causeway.