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    Periscopic camera obscura

    Date
    1812
    Creator
    William Hyde Wollaston (1766 - 1828, British) , Chemist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (drawing): 231mm
    width (drawing): 185mm
    Subject
    Physics
       > Optics
    Description
    Plate 9 from the paper "On a periscopic camera obscura and microscope", William Hyde Wollaston, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.102 (1812), pp.370-377. Five figures sketching basic optical details of a conventional and periscopic camera obscura, periscopic prism of a camera lucida and a periscopic microscope. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked "Ivy Mill 1807."
    Object history
    An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > United Kingdom
    Credit
    © The Royal Society
    Image number
    RS.8579
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