Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10145
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‘Trevandrum Observatory...from the South West ’
Date
1839
Creator - Organisation
Waterlow and Company, Printmaker
After
W H Horsley (British) , Military engineer
Object type
Library reference
Tracts/X21/6
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 202mm
width (print): 268mm
width (print): 268mm
Subject
Content object
Description
View of Trevandrum Observatory, from the south west. The main observatory is on the skyline: two other buildings, the Astronomer’s House and the Meteorological Bungalow are marked on the print at ‘VV’ and ‘V’ respectively. The observatory was designed and constructed in 1837 by W.H.Horsley, a lieutenant in the Madras Engineers, under the patronage of Sri Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma (1813-1846) Maharaja of the State of Travancore [now Thiruvananthapuram in the state of Kerala, India].
Plate 1 from Description of an observatory established at Trevandrum by his Highness the Rajah of Travanacore by John Caldecott (Madras 1837; reprinted London, 1839). Inscribed; “TREVANDRUM OBSERVATORY, View taken from the South West. Waterlow & Co. Lith Birchin Lane.”
John Caldecott (1800-1849) astronomer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1840.
Plate 1 from Description of an observatory established at Trevandrum by his Highness the Rajah of Travanacore by John Caldecott (Madras 1837; reprinted London, 1839). Inscribed; “TREVANDRUM OBSERVATORY, View taken from the South West. Waterlow & Co. Lith Birchin Lane.”
John Caldecott (1800-1849) astronomer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1840.
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