Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10147
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‘Trevandrum Observatory’
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): 268mm
width (print): 202mm
width (print): 202mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Architectural views of the Trevandrum Observatory. Figure 1 elevation of the observatory. Figure 2 plan view of the observatrory. Figure 3 longitudinal section. 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]. Scale 1 inch: 15 feet.
Plate 3 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...Waterlow & Co. Lith Birchin Lane.”
John Caldecott (1800-1849) astronomer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1840.
Plate 3 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...Waterlow & Co. Lith Birchin Lane.”
John Caldecott (1800-1849) astronomer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1840.
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