observatory
A square limestone tower of 1898 at the highest point of the Colleges, carrying three domes of green copper whose shutters have been patched with tin. The great refractor of 1912 in the largest dome was turned in 1959 from a sky it could not find to the city it could: through the slit one sees into half the windows of the Colleges, the oculus of the Theatre, and, high up in the white, the far half of Recto hanging on its edge. In the computing room below, the observers keep every scholar's posit...
Located in The Möbius Academy.