| RefNo | PT/65/1/8 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Plate, Kew heliograph at Rivabellosa by W [William] G Miller |
| Date | [1862] |
| Description | Engraving copied from a photograph taken at Rivabellosa, showing the Kew heliograph used to obtain photographs of the eclipse. The heliograph is surrounded by five men. Mr [George] Downes stands in a doorway at the right of the engraving, Mr Reynolds prepares to place a plate-holder in the heliograph, and Mr [Robert] Beckley watches the time on the chronometer.
Subject: Astronomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The Bakerian lecture.—On the total solar eclipse of July 18th, 1860, observed at Rivabellosa, near Miranda de Ebro, in Spain'.
Written by de la Rue at the Observatory in Crawford, Middlesex. Received by the Royal Society on 30 January 1862. Read 10 April 1862. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Printed |
| PhysicalDescription | Engraved figure on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1862.0010 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1862.0021 |
| RelatedRecord | RR/4/66 |
| RR/4/67 |
| PT/65/1 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA3837 | Rue; Warren de la (1815 - 1889); chemist and astronomer | 1815 - 1889 |