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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.

The fond contains 3 books of Astronomical observations made at the honorable the East India Company's Observatory at Madras

This Fond is related to Magnetic Observatory of Kodaikanal

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.

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.

The fond contains correspondence between E. C. J. Bond, the officer-in-charge, No. 18 party (Magnetic), Survey of India, and the Director of the Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories during 1919-1920. The official letters are about the magnetic observations from the Kodaikanal Magnetic Observatory. The observations have been taken from the Kodaikanal Observatory and used to send to The Survey of India office for scientific purposes. This fond consists of 7 letters sufficient to understand the cooperation between The Survey of India and The Kodaikanal Observatory.

Seven official letters pertaining to Gilbert T. Walker from 1903 to 1912 are included in the fond. This includes correspondence between Gilbert T. Walker and the Director of the Kodaikanal Observatory and the Meteorological Reporter to the Government of Madras.

This fond contains letters, annual expenditure reports and bills of Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories. It also contains correspondence of John Eliot,Charles Michie Smith and R.E.V.Arbuthnot during July 1901 to March 1903 regarding the index slip, meteorological summaries, seismological reviews and disturbances and other reports like annual expenditure, bills, and telegraphs. It has a report on the condition and proceedings of the government observatory, Colaba, written by N.A.F.Moos. It also has letters from the Royal Society of India, H. Grubb, J. Larmer, R. Fuess, William Butler and Charles P. Butler to the Meteorological Department and Kodaikanal & Madras Observatory.

This fond contains official letters related to William Butler from March to November 1908.

This fond contains correspondences related to clocks in Madras and Kodaikanal Observatory