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The Saga of the Observatory on the Summit of Mont Blanc

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“L’entreprise est de celles qui passent l’ordinaire, tant par la conception que par l’exécution, et il n’est pas d’un médiocre esprit de pousser jusqu’à la dernière limite du possible.”

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Notes

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    The original text was written in French: “Il m’est bien agréable de me mettre encore une fois en communication avec vous, et surtout lorsque c’est pour vous offrir nos plus sincères félicitations sur la belle réalisation de votre grande idée de monter presque au ciel même en couronnant le sommet de la terre par un observatoire!”

  2. 2.

    An excess of red corpuscles in the blood, now known by the term “polycythemia.”

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Launay, F. (2012). The Saga of the Observatory on the Summit of Mont Blanc. In: The Astronomer Jules Janssen. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 380. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0697-6_12

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