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The first catalogue of double stars is due to Christian Mayer in 1779 and contains 80 entries. It was the work of Herschel and especially Struve who gave the whole subject a respectability which was lacking. Struve’s Mensurae Micrometricae (to give the catalogue its shortened name) which appeared in 1837, was a huge work in more than one respect. The original volume is 46 cm ×28 cm in size and weighs in at 3 kg. The first 180 pages are also in Latin (Fig. 27.1).
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Argyle, B., Argyle, R.W. (2012). Catalogues. In: Argyle, R.W. (eds) Observing and Measuring Visual Double Stars. Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3945-5_27
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