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RefNoL&P/6/248/3
LevelItem
TitlePlate, unnamed [Perspective of figure A from preceding plate], 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
DescriptionPerspective of the Laghu Samrat Yantra sundial, in two figures, attributed to Lieutenant colonel Archibald Campbell, chief-engineer for the East India Company by the author.

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
PhysicalDescriptionInk, watercolour on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1777.0031
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
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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