Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10146
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‘Trevandrum Observatory...from the North 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 north west. The main observatory is shown on small hill on the skyline. 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 2 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 North West. Waterlow & Co. Lith Birchin Lane.”
John Caldecott (1800-1849) astronomer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1840.
Plate 2 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 North 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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