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General and Applied Physics of the University of Milan. The Observatory's nucleus of astronomical instruments has been enriched with miscellaneous scientific instruments that are part of the historical collection of the University of Milan. These include telescopes, microscopes, pneumatic and electrostatic devices, instruments for cartographic surveys of the 18th-19th century.
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and enriched by subsequent directors, is displayed in the entrance hall of the
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The dome with the 8-inch refracting telescope which
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to the German constructor Georg Merz. In 1946 the observatory became part of the scientific institutions of the new born
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