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This fond contains official letters related to Charles P. Butler during 1903-1904. It includes communications with the Meteorological Reporter, the Government of India and Director General of Indian Observatories, Simla, and the Officer Commanding Royal Engineers, Madras.

This fond contains materials related to C. M. Smith that has general local office materials including letters of all local government and administrations. The letters pertaining to conference proceedings, and correspondences from International Scientists. A large portion of the collection was associated with information on observation.

The fond contain compliation of Photographs, Newspaper Clippings and Correspondence to M.K. Vainu Bappu and Institutes

The fond contain compilation of Pogson's observations and drawing

The fond contain compilation of Photographs, Newspaper Clipping, Pamphlets, Correspondence to Chinthamani Ragoonatha Chary and Transit of Venus.

Johannes Kepler's Astronomia Nova, published in 1609, was the oldest book available in the archives. It contains the results of Kepler's ten-year-long investigation of the motion of Mars. Where previous astronomers had relied on geometric models to explain the observed positions of the planets, Kepler discovered physical causes for planetary motion. Before Kepler, Nicolaus Copernicus proposed in 1543 that the Earth and other planets orbit the Sun. Kepler was the first astronomer to prove this conjecture with rigorous scientific arguments. This Volume has 336 pages and is in fairly good condition.