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Reference numberL&P/6/248/2
LevelItem
TitlePlate, unnamed [View of Jantar Mantar], by Lieutenant colonel Archibald Campbell
CreatorCampbell; Archibald (1739-1791); Army captain; British East India Company chief engineer; imperial investor; colonial governor of Georgia, Jamaica, Madras.
Date1777
DescriptionView of the Jantar Mantar, Varanasi completed in 1734. Astronomical observatory and sets of stone instruments including some of the largest in the world built by the founder of Jaipur, Sawai Jai Singh.
The plate shows five of the seven instruments, including the Samrat Yantra (sundial) and Digamsa Yantra (wheel instrument to measure azimuth of the sun; calculate the time of sunrise and sunset).
The perspective shows East India Company soldiers on the viewing platform.

Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the Bramin's observatory at Benares. By Sir Robert Barker, Knt. F.R.S.; in a letter to Sir John Pringle, Bart. P.R.S.'

Read 29 May 1777
Extent1p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionWatercolour, ink on paper
Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1777.0031
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA7207Barker; Sir; Robert (? 1729 - 1789); army officer in the East India Company and Commander in Chief in Bengal? 1729 - 1789
NA6809Pringle; Sir; John (1707 - 1782)1707 - 1782
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