| RefNo | PT/73/11/23 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Diagram, transit telescope at Cambridge Observatory by unknown artist |
| Date | [1825] |
| Description | Plate 27 showing a diagram of the transit telescope at Cambridge Observatory. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Written up the left side of the plate and struck out is 'Mr Woodhouse's Paper no XVII'. A pencil inscription in the bottom right reads 'Js [James] Basire sculpt.' Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Scientific Instruments
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Some account of the transit instrument made by Mr. Dollond, and lately put up at the Cambridge Observatory' by Robert Woodhouse.
Read to the Royal Society on 19 May 1825. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Diagram |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Dimensions | 299x198mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1825.0019 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0265 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8096 | Woodhouse; Robert (1773 - 1827) | 1773 - 1827 |