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The accidental destruction of the Chateau Neuf at the end of the Franco-Prussian war gave Jules Janssen the idea of a great national observatory at Meudon with a large refracting telescope. The chapter includes the early history of the Observatory and details of its foundations, and of the building of the dome.
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Dollfus†, A. (2013). The Project, its Realisation and the Dome. In: The Great Refractor of Meudon Observatory. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 398. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7288-9_1
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