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Tucked away in a leafy southwestern suburb of Paris, amid rolling hills and valleys, and sleepy glades of chestnut and ancient oak, lies Meudon. Inhabited since Neolithic times, the Gallic incumbents called it Moldum. Under Roman occupation from the mid-first century b. c. onwards, it was known as Moldunum. The great natural beauty of the area attracted the elite in French society from these early times, its hills providing ready-made vantage points for surveying and surveillance alike (Fig. 26.1).
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English, N. (2018). The Great Meudon Refractor. In: Chronicling the Golden Age of Astronomy. Historical & Cultural Astronomy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97707-2_26
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