RefNo | AP/15/21/2 |
Level | Item |
Title | Unpublished diagram, plane of the meridian by [Thomas Kerigan] |
Date | 28 January 1832 |
Description | Diagram showing the plane of the meridian at a given point of observation, with the earth's axis, equator, horizon, prime vertical, and latitude delineated.
Subject: Geodesy / Astronomy
Written by Kerigan in Portsea [Porstmouth, England]. Communicated by Sir Edwd [Edward] Codrington. Received by the Royal Society from the President [Augustus Frederick] on 18 February 1832. Read 15 March 1832.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'A method of deducing the longitude from the moon’s right ascension'. |
Extent | 1p |
Format | Diagram |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0061 |
RelatedRecord | AP/15/21 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA6545 | Codrington; Sir; Edward (1770 - 1851) | 1770 - 1851 |
NA295 | Kerigan; Thomas (- 1848) | - 1848 |
NA8338 | Augustus Frederick (1773 - 1843); Duke of Sussex | 1773 - 1843 |