Reference number | PT/62/4 |
Level | File |
Title | Paper, 'On the Indian arc of meridian' by [John Henry Pratt] |
Date | 19 July 1860 |
Description | 57 manuscript pages and one plate showing a diagram of the curvature of the Indian arc.
Subject: Geodesy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the Indian arc of meridian'.
Written by Pratt in Calcutta [Kolkata, West Bengal, India]. Communicated by Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes. Received by the Royal Society on 3 September 1860. Read 22 November 1860.
Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 10, 1860. |
Extent | 58p |
Format | Manuscript |
Physical description | Ink on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
Access status | Open |
Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1859.0131 |
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1861.0025 |
Related records in the catalogue | RR/4/205 |
RR/4/206 |
PT/62/4/1 |
PT/62/4/2 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | Name | Dates |
NA8010 | Pratt; John Henry (1809 - 1871) | 1809 - 1871 |
NA8283 | Stokes; Sir; George Gabriel (1819 - 1903); physicist | 1819 - 1903 |