Astronomy in New York City
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Astronomy in New York City
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Prior to European settlement, the area that became New York City was inhabited by the Lenape, an indigenous group whose cosmology included the known planets and explained the earth's position in the universe. In 1818, Benjamin and Samuel Demilt opened the first observatory on top of a jewelry store. The first determination of New York City's longitude was made from the cupola of Columbia College during the solar eclipse of 1821. In 1856, Lewis Morris Rutherfurd built a private observatory at his
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