Description | Plate 12, figures 1-4 showing the construction of apparatuses for use in taking geodetic measurements from a distance. The apparatuses comprised a combination of telescopes, sextants, reflectors, and thermometers. Inscribed with publication, plate details, and scales of drawings. Ink inscription above reads 'Drawing belongs to Mr Drummond's Paper no XXIII'. Not signed. Watermarked 'W Brookman 1821'. Royal Society stamp verso. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.
Subject: Geodesy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the means of facilitating the observation of distant stations in geodætical operations' by Thomas Drummond.
Read to the Royal Society on 4 May 1826. |