Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9121
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Corona of the eclipsed Sun, 1871
Date
1874
Creator - Organisation
Cooper & Hodson, Lithographers
Object type
Library reference
50055
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Dimensions
height (print): 180mm
width (print): 121mm
width (print): 121mm
Subject
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Description
The Corona of the eclipsed Sun, 1871. ‘As seen (1) by Respighi at the commencement of totality with prism before the object glass of a telescope and no slit (2) by Lockyer 80s after commencement through a simple train of 5 prisms and (3) by Respighi at mid eclipse (as in 2)’, frontispiece to Contributions to solar physics, by J Norman Lockyer (London, 1874).
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