| RefNo | PT/18/14 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, 'On the discordances between the sun's observed and computed right ascensions as determined at the Blackman Street Observatory, in the years 1821 and 1822; experiments to shew that they do not originate in instrumental derangement; also a description of a seven-feet transit with which the observations were procured, and upon which the experiments were made' by James South |
| Date | 1 June 1826 |
| Description | Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/73/12/16.
Subject: Astronomy
Published in volume 116 of Philosophical Transactions as 'On the discordances between the sun's observed and computed right ascensions, as determined at the Blackman-street observatory, in the years 1821 and 1822; with experiments to show that they did not originate in instrumental derangement. also a description of the seven-feet transit with which the observations were procured, and upon which the experiments were made'.
Read 8 June 1826.
Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833. |
| Extent | 19p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0300 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1826.0032 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/73/12/16 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7104 | South; Sir; James (1785 - 1867) | 1785 - 1867 |