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Robert Hunt’s Rocks and Romances, England

Born in Plymouth Dock in 1807, Robert Hunt’s local legacy has been both a mineralogical collection at the Camborne School of Mines (now part of Exeter University) and a selection of regional folklore, Popular Romances of the West of England. … Continue reading

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Ely Solar Astronomers

If you are visiting the city of Ely you might like to look up two interesting characters that ran a solar observatory taking pictures of the disc of the Sun on each possible day from 1863 to 1874. The observatory … Continue reading

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