| Reference number | PT/3/4/3 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Plate, diagrams showing tools for a microscope and a lantern to be used with a telescope by unknown artist |
| Date | [1809] |
| Description | Fold-out ink diagram by an unknown artist showing tools for a microscope as well as a lantern to be used with a telescope.
Subject: Scientific instruments
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of a method of dividing astronomical and other instruments, by ocular inspection; in which the usual tools for graduating are not employed; the whole operation being being so contrived, that no error can occur but what is chargeable to vision, when assisted by the best optical means of viewing and measuring minute quantities'.
Communicated by the Astronomer Royal [Nevil Maskelyne]. Read 2 February 1809. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Physical description | Ink on paper |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1800.0176 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1809.0006 |
| Related records in the catalogue | PT/3/4 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA7854 | Troughton; Edward (1753 - 1835) | 1753 - 1835 |
| NA5553 | Maskelyne; Nevil (1732 - 1811) | 1732 - 1811 |