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This chapter offers an overview of the 21 observatories in Europe most associated with asteroid observations in the early nineteenth century.
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Cunningham, C.J. (2017). The Observatories. In: Bode’s Law and the Discovery of Juno. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32875-1_14
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