Record

RefNoMM/15/47
LevelItem
TitleReport by Edwin Dunkin to the Committee of Papers on a paper by FC Penrose on the orientation of a number of Greek temples
Date30 January 1893
DescriptionRecommending the paper be published in 'Philosophical Transactions'.

Paper published as 'On the Results of an Examination of the Orientations of a Number of Greek Temples with a View to Connect these Angles with the Amplitudes of Certain Stars at the Time the Temples were Founded, and an Endeavour to Derive therefrom the Dates of their Foundation by Consideration of the Changes Produced upon the Right Ascension and Declination of the Stars by the Precession of the Equinoxes', 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London', A, Vol. 184 (1893), pp805-834
Extent2 sides
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6455Dunkin; Edwin (1821 - 1898)1821 - 1898
NA2786Penrose; Francis Cranmer (1817 - 1903)1817 - 1903
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