Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14628

    Sextant with telescopic sights

    Date
    10 February 1685
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p16
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 322mm
    width (page): 203mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Diagram of a sextant with telescopic sights, used by Francesco Bianchini to observe a lunar eclipse, in a letter to John Flamsteed from Rome.

    Diagram is copied at LBC/10/021.
    Related fellows
    John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719, British) , Astronomer
    Francesco Bianchini (1662 - 1729, Italian) , Philosopher
    Associated place
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