Agasthyarkoodam’s lost observatory Subject: Science and technology Section: Space technology Concept: Agasthyarkoodam on the Western Ghats once (in Nineteenth-century) housed an observatory that was established by Scottish meteorologist John Allan Broun. Broun used it to record magnetic and meteorological observations in tandem with the Thiruvananthapuram astronomical observatory. Broun’s astronomical research in India began […]