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RefNoPT/73/5/7
LevelItem
TitleDrawings, terrestrial globes with equators, poles, ellipses, and quadrants by [Abraham Robertson]
Date[1816]
DescriptionPlate 6, figures 1-6 showing terrestrial globes with equators, poles, ellipses, and quadrants. The drawings are inscribed above with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked 'Allee 1813'.

Subject: Astronomy / Geodesy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Demonstrations of the late Dr. Maskelyne's formulæ for finding the longitude and latitude of a celestial object from its right ascension and declination; and for finding its right ascension and declination from its longitude and latitude, the obliquity of the ecliptic being given in both cases' by Abraham Robertson.

Read to the Royal Society on 15 February 1816.
Extent1p
FormatDrawing
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
Dimensions263x209mm
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0032
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1816.0009
RelatedRecordPT/10/8
URLDescriptionDigital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library
URLhttps://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8620
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7290Robertson; Abraham (1751 - 1826)1751 - 1826
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