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One of the most beautiful libraries in the world
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The Clementinum is an absolute pearl in Prague. The national library of the Czech Republic is an incredibly beautiful example of baroque architecture. It was once a jesuit college, now it’s home to the national library.
The Clementinum is the second-largest building complex in Prague, the largest is Prague Castle. There is an astronomical tower on top of the library that became world famous thanks to the research that scientists Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler undertook at this spot. Between 1600 and 1612 they studied the position of the planets and recorded their findings.
They concluded, for example, that planets don’t actually move in circles but in ellipses. They still use the tower for meteorological and climatological research.
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