Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9086
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Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland
Date
ca. 1861
Creator
Countess Mary of Rosse (1813 - 1885, British) , Photographer
Object type
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 163mm
width (print): 216mm
height (mount): 188mm
width (mount): 277mm
width (print): 216mm
height (mount): 188mm
width (mount): 277mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Unused illustration from the paper "On the construction of specula of six-feet aperture; and a selection from the observations of nebulae made with them", by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 151 (1861) pp.681-746. The great telescope seen from the north at a slight angle to the view selected for figure 8 of plate 24. The telescope is held low, with foreground detail of the crane winding mechanism on a platform behind the instrument.
Object history
This photograph was supplied for reproduction in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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