Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8579
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Periscopic camera obscura
Date
1812
Creator
William Hyde Wollaston (1766 - 1828, British) , Chemist
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 231mm
width (drawing): 185mm
width (drawing): 185mm
Subject
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.
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