Telescope and radiomicrometer
Date
ca. 1890
Creator
Charles Vernon Boys (1855 - 1944, British) , Physicist
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 116mm
width (print): 167mm
width (print): 167mm
Subject
Content object
Description
View of a short telescope designed by C.V.Boys using a 16-inch aperture mirror with a focal length of 67.8 inches belonging to Sir William Huggins. The instrument was used in conjunction with Boys’s quartz fibre radiomicrometer to determine temperature variations at distance. The complete apparatus, within a roughly made shed, was deployed in Boys’s father’s garden at Wing, Rutland, England and observations were made there from 1888.
Illustration from the manuscript version of the paper ‘On the heat of the Moon and stars’, by C.V.Boys, Proceedings of the Royal Society, vol.47 (1890), pp.480-499. The study was engraved as figure 2 in the published paper. Inscribed in ink: ‘Fig.2’.
Sir Charles Vernon Boys (1855-1944) physicist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1888.
Illustration from the manuscript version of the paper ‘On the heat of the Moon and stars’, by C.V.Boys, Proceedings of the Royal Society, vol.47 (1890), pp.480-499. The study was engraved as figure 2 in the published paper. Inscribed in ink: ‘Fig.2’.
Sir Charles Vernon Boys (1855-1944) physicist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1888.
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