Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14905

    Sextant with telescopic sights

    Date
    4 February 1685
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    LBC
    Manuscript page number
    vol10 p21
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 308mm
    width (page): 178mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Diagram of a sextant with telescopic sights used to observe a lunar eclipse by Francesco Bianchini, in a letter to John Flamsteed from Rome.

    This is a copy of LBO/10/016.
    Related fellows
    Edward Montagu, Naval officer
    Francesco Bianchini (1662 - 1729, Italian) , Philosopher
    Associated place
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          > Italy
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