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This blue commemorative plaque records: Thomas Cooke FRAS 1807-1868 Optical Instrument Maker designed the 1850 refracting telescope in this observatory built by the Yorkshire Philosophical Society 1833 Recorded plaque organisation: York Civic Trust.
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