Fuertes Observatory
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Fuertes Observatory is an astronomical observatory located on the North Campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. The observatory was designed by L.P. Burnham, Cornell Professor of Architectur
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Professor Samuel L. Boothroyd looks through the Irving Porter Church Telescope in 1923, soon after its completion. Cornell Alumni News, May 3, 1923.
The Irving Porter Church Memorial Telescope residing in the dome room of Cornell's Fuertes Observatory. The instrument is a 12" f/15 refracting telescope installed in 1922.
The Irving Porter Church Telescope on its original German Equatorial Mount built by Warner & Swasey.
Estevan Antonio Fuertes
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Estevan Antonio Fuertes was a Puerto Rican-American civil engineer and professor of astronomy at Cornell University.
Fuertes Observatory
…undergraduate and graduate students. The observatory is named after the Puerto Rican-American astronomer and builder of Cornell's first observatory, Estevan Antonio Fuertes. Several observatories existed on Cornell's Central Campus in the later part of the 19th century and first decade of the 20th century. However, due to…
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