Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21002

    Portrait of Placidus Fixlmillner

    Date
    1801
    Sitter
    Placidus Fixlmillner (1721 - 1791, Austrian) , Astronomer
    Creator
    K Mackenzie, Engraver
    Object type
    Library reference
    9183
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 210mm
    width (print): 128mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Placidus FixlMillner, facing, angled to the right as viewed. In ecclesiastical dress and cap, with a curtain above. Presented within an oval frame.

    Frontispiece to The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.5, (1799-1800).

    Inscribed below, ‘Placidus Fixlmillner. Mackenzie sc. 1801’.

    Placidus Fixlmillner (1721-1791) Austrian astronomer and monk, who made early computations of the orbit of Uranus.

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