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It was established by Leiden University in 1633, to house the quadrant of Snellius, and is the oldest operating University observatory in the world (before this, astronomy taught at medieval universities tended to be of a more theoretical nature, and any observations were usually done with private equipment rather than at University observatories —see this timeline).
At many medieval universities, this would have been the course leading to the degree of Master of Arts (after the BA).
Scholasticism, a method of learning taught by the academics of medieval universities circa 1100–1500