| RefNo | PT/3/4/2 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Plate, diagrams showing how to use apparatus with telescope by unknown artist |
| Date | [1809] |
| Description | Fold-out ink diagrams of four figures showing how to use apparatus with a telescope.
Subject: Scientific instruments
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of a method of dividing astronomical and other instruments, by ocular inspection; in which the usual tools for graduating are not employed; the whole operation being being so contrived, that no error can occur but what is chargeable to vision, when assisted by the best optical means of viewing and measuring minute quantities'.
Communicated by the Astronomer Royal [Nevil Maskelyne]. Read 2 February 1809. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Diagram |
| PhysicalDescription | Fold-out diagrams drawn in ink |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1800.0176 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1809.0006 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/3/4 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7854 | Troughton; Edward (1753 - 1835) | 1753 - 1835 |
| NA5553 | Maskelyne; Nevil (1732 - 1811) | 1732 - 1811 |