RefNo | PT/53/10/3 |
Level | Item |
Title | Plate, 'Sections through Arthur's Seat' by unknown artist |
Date | [1856] |
Description | Drawings of three sections through Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh, Scotland demonstrating specific gravity. Different colours indicate the locations of sandstone and trap rock in the formation.
Subject: Geodesy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the deflection of the plumb-line at Arthur's Seat, and the mean specific gravity of the earth'.
Received by the Royal Society on 11 February 1856. Read 21 February 1856. |
Extent | 1p |
Format | Drawing |
PhysicalDescription | Ink and watercolour on paper |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1856.0014 |
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1856.0029 |
RelatedRecord | RR/3/151 |
RR/3/152 |
PT/53/10 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA2879 | James; Sir; Henry (1803 - 1877); surveyor | 1803 - 1877 |