Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10051
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‘The zodiacal light as seen at the Cape’
Date
1845
Creator
Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819 - 1900, British) , Astronomer
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 257mm
width (painting): 187mm
height (mount): 286mm
width (mount): 217mm
width (painting): 187mm
height (mount): 286mm
width (mount): 217mm
Subject
Description
View of the zodiacal light above a South African landscape with cattle and human figures.
Illustration from the unpublished paper "Attempt to apply instrumental measurement to the zodiacal light...”, by Charles Piazzi Smyth. The paper was written or completed on 25 March 1848 and received by the Royal Society on 13 April. It was eventually withdrawn on 2 November 1848.
The central image is framed in red watercolour and has various degrees of ascension and declination inscribed. It is captioned below: “The Zodiacal light as seen at the Cape (33 S.Lat.) in the evening, in July, 1845.”
Illustration from the unpublished paper "Attempt to apply instrumental measurement to the zodiacal light...”, by Charles Piazzi Smyth. The paper was written or completed on 25 March 1848 and received by the Royal Society on 13 April. It was eventually withdrawn on 2 November 1848.
The central image is framed in red watercolour and has various degrees of ascension and declination inscribed. It is captioned below: “The Zodiacal light as seen at the Cape (33 S.Lat.) in the evening, in July, 1845.”
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