An engraving of astronomical and scientific instruments at the first Viennese observatory from 1745, which was the best equipped observatory of its time. From "De Astronomica specula domestica et organico apparatu astronomico libri duo" by Giovanni Jacopo

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An engraving of astronomical and scientific instruments at the first Viennese observatory from 1745, which was the best equipped observatory of its time. From "De Astronomica specula domestica et organico apparatu astronomico libri duo" by Giovanni Jacopo de Marinoni (1670-1755), an Italian mathematician and engineer who lived in Vienna and was Court Astronomer in the court of Kaiser Leopold I.

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