Astronomical pendulum by Utzschneider und Fraunhofer, used by the 1874 Dutch expedition on Reunion
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The director Frederik Kaiser of The Leiden Observatory bought this pendulum clock in 1838. It has a compensated pendulum after Mahler. The clock was lent to the 1874 Dutch expedition to Reunion.
Utzschneider und Fraunhofer, Munich, 1838
Museum Boerhaave V3464
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