RefNo | PT/73/3/4 |
Level | Item |
Title | Drawing, periscopic camera obscura by [William Hyde Wollaston] |
Date | 1812 |
Description | Plate 9 containing five figures sketching basic optical details of a conventional and periscopic camera obscura, periscopic prism of a camera lucida, and a periscopic microscope. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked 'Ivy Mill 1807'.
Subject: Optics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On a periscopic camera obscura and microscope' by William Hyde Wollaston.
Read to the Royal Society on 11 June 1812. |
Extent | 1p |
Format | Drawing |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
Dimensions | 231x185mm |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1800.0253 |
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1812.0021 |
RelatedRecord | PT/6/19 |
URLDescription | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8579 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8298 | Wollaston; William Hyde (1766 - 1828); chemist, physicist and physiologist | 1766 - 1828 |