Astronomical tower of Vilnius University - Vilnius (Lithuania)
N 54° 40.956 E 025° 17.224
35U E 389568 N 6060819
Depicted beautiful Baroque Astronomicál tower, a part of historic campus of Vilnius University, belongs to the first astronomical observatory in Lithuania...
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Location: Lithuania
Date Posted: 05/02/2014
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Depicted beautiful Baroque Astronomicál tower, a part of historic campus of Vilnius University, belongs to the first astronomical observatory in Lithuania...
In 1752 an experienced architect, mathematician and astronomer Thomas Zebrowski (1714-1758) returned to Vilnius from advanced studies in Vienna and Prague. In Lithuania he became famous as a scientist, as well as a gifted public lecturer on popular mathematics, physics and astronomy. He designed a plan of an astronomical observatory and received means from a noblewoman and benefactress Elzbieta Oginska-Puzynina (1700-1768) for its construction. The building of the astronomical observatory was started in 1753. The observatory was erected on the top of the three-storey university building.