Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10685
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Chart of Western Sumatra
Date
ca. 1824
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Library reference
41205
Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 230mm
width (painting): 368mm
width (painting): 368mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map of the coastline of western Sumatra, Indonesia, showing inlets, settlements and Mount Ophir, with three islands off the coast. Inscribed ‘Sketch of part of the West Coast of Sumatra and adjacent island near the Equator as given in some of the charts’.
Figure no.1 from Report of the length of the pendulum at the equator...made on an expedition...from the observatory at Madras..., by John Goldingham (Madras, 1824).
Scale 3 ½ inches: 40 miles.
Original painting pasted onto a backing sheet. Not signed. Paper watermarked but not dated.
This expedition to make gravity measurements by pendulum was led by John Goldingham of the Madras Observatory: “In order to compare and combine the Observations for the Length of the Pendulum taken in different Latitudes...it would be most desirable to have accurate Observations taken at the Equator...a part of the Island of Sumatra, which is under the influence of the Honorable [East India] Company’s Government, is crossed by the Equator, and offers a most eligible Station...”
John Goldingham (c.1766-1849) British astronomer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1808.
Figure no.1 from Report of the length of the pendulum at the equator...made on an expedition...from the observatory at Madras..., by John Goldingham (Madras, 1824).
Scale 3 ½ inches: 40 miles.
Original painting pasted onto a backing sheet. Not signed. Paper watermarked but not dated.
This expedition to make gravity measurements by pendulum was led by John Goldingham of the Madras Observatory: “In order to compare and combine the Observations for the Length of the Pendulum taken in different Latitudes...it would be most desirable to have accurate Observations taken at the Equator...a part of the Island of Sumatra, which is under the influence of the Honorable [East India] Company’s Government, is crossed by the Equator, and offers a most eligible Station...”
John Goldingham (c.1766-1849) British astronomer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1808.
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