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RefNoPT/73/12/16
LevelItem
TitleDrawings, sections through axis and telescope by [T Bradley]
Date[1826]
DescriptionPlate 18, figures 8-9 showing sections through the transverse axis of South's transit and a section through the axis of the telescope itself. Inscribed with publication, plate details, and a scale. The published version of this plate is in portrait orientation, with figure 8 above figure 9. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.

Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled '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' by James South.

Read to the Royal Society on 8 June 1826.
Extent1p
FormatDrawing
PhysicalDescriptionInk and ink wash on paper
Dimensions328x230mm
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1826.0032
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0300
RelatedRecordPT/18/14
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7104South; Sir; James (1785 - 1867)1785 - 1867
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