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The Care of Obsolete Instruments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Magda Vargha
Magda Vargha*
Affiliation:
Konkoly Observatory Budapest

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Hungary is a little country with old traditions. Hungarian celebrate the 950th anniversary of the death of the first king Stephan I this year. As regards astronomy, during the Renaissance in the court of the Hungarian king Matthias I there was a modest flowering in astronomy and this continued until 1526, when because of the Turkish occupation, the region was cut off and remained so for centuries. I do not want to list all the tragic historical events. Rather I would like to emphasize what we know by own experiences: what it means to reconstruct destroyed buildings and to try to collect valuable old items that are thrown away by guilty negligence.

Type
Part 6. Conservation and Archiving
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 110: Library and Information Services in Astronomy , 1989 , pp. 161 - 163
Copyright
Copyright © United States Naval Observatory 1989

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