| RefNo | EC/1855/07 |
| Previous numbers | Cert IX, 356; A03445 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Hippisley, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | The Author of several Communications to the Royal Astronomical Society, see the "Monthly Notices" vol X page 66 & vol XIV pages 163 & 185 - also of a paper on some phenomena of vision in the "Athenaeum" of 2nd Oct 1852. The Inventor or Improver of a very efficient machine for polishing Specula, & also of a machine for writing, with perhaps unparalleled minuteness, with a diamond on glass. Distinguished for his acquaintance with the science of Astronomy, evinced by his erection of an Astronomical Observatory with a revolving dome, containing an equatoreally-mounted Newtonian telescope of 9 1/4 ins aperture and 9 feet focus. Eminent as an ingenious Mechanician, having executed the mounting of this Telescope and Clock-work Motion, which contain some contrivances of great ingenuity and simplicity, entirely under his own direction, and in a great measure with his own hands. |
| Proposers | From General Knowledge. Joseph Dickinson; M Faraday; J W Lubbock
From Personal Knowledge. Wm Lassell; S Oxon; Charles Lemon; Thos Dyke Acland; Richard Sheepshanks |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7681 | Hippisley; John (1804 - 1898) | 1804 - 1898 |