Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10053
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Instrument for observing zodiacal light
Date
1848
Creator
Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819 - 1900, British) , Astronomer
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 215mm
width (drawing): 198mm
width (drawing): 198mm
Subject
Description
Instrument for observing zodiacal light.
Illustration from the unpublished paper "Attempt to apply instrumental measurement to the zodiacal light...”, by Charles Piazzi Smyth.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 It was eventually withdrawn on 2 November 1848. It contained an appendix, from which this illustration is drawn: “Appendix...describing a simple equatorial instrument, adapted to and sufficient for its measurement.”
Inscribed in ink lower right: “Universal Equatorial Instrument for observing the Zodiacal Light.”
Illustration from the unpublished paper "Attempt to apply instrumental measurement to the zodiacal light...”, by Charles Piazzi Smyth.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 It was eventually withdrawn on 2 November 1848. It contained an appendix, from which this illustration is drawn: “Appendix...describing a simple equatorial instrument, adapted to and sufficient for its measurement.”
Inscribed in ink lower right: “Universal Equatorial Instrument for observing the Zodiacal Light.”