RefNo | MM/15/51 |
Level | Item |
Title | Further comments by GH Darwin on a paper by FC Penrose on the orientation of a number of Greek temples |
Date | 6 April 1897 |
Description | Summarising the criticisms of Penrose's paper by WHM Christie and himself.
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 |
Extent | 1 side |
Format | Manuscript |
AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8198 | Darwin; Sir; George Howard (1845 - 1912); mathematician and geophysicist | 1845 - 1912 |
NA2786 | Penrose; Francis Cranmer (1817 - 1903) | 1817 - 1903 |