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National Geographic : 1920 Nov
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346 THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE © Underwood & Underwood ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS IN TIllE OLDEST OS01S'RVATORY IN TllE WORLD, FOUNDED BlY KUILAI KIHAN, AT PEKING, IN TIIE TIIIRTI ENTII CENTURY Most of the bronze instruments of today were made 1b the Jesuit priest Verhiest from the original Chinese models. When Peking was looted in 1900oo,some of the finest of these instru ments were seized by the Germans and sent to the imperial gardens at Potsdam. By a provision of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany undertook "to restore to China, within twelve months from the coming into force of the present treaty, all the astronomical instruments which her troops in 1900-1901 carried away from China, and to defray all expenses which may he incurred in effecting such restoration, including the expenses of dismounting, packing, trans porting, insurance, and installation in Peking." iH r( rr :~d
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