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Image number: RS.10690
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Map of South-West Sumatra
Date
ca. 1824
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Library reference
41205
Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 368mm
width (painting): 236mm
width (painting): 236mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map of the coastline and mountain peaks as seen from Fort Marlborough, Bencoolen [Benkulu City], south-western Sumatra, Indonesia. With an inset survey of Rat Island showing locations for the wharf, buildings for convicts and stores. Inscribed: ‘Plan shewing the Positions of the Remarkable Peaks and Mountains as seen from Bencoolen With part of the Coast of Sumatra. Laid down by triangles...’
Figure no.7 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 1 inch: 4 miles.
Original painting pasted onto a backing sheet. Not signed. Both papers watermarked: ‘S.Wise & Co. 1822’.
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.7 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 1 inch: 4 miles.
Original painting pasted onto a backing sheet. Not signed. Both papers watermarked: ‘S.Wise & Co. 1822’.
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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